Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conspicuous Stage. The outlook was brighter, and the Western principals of the Middle East drama underscored Ike's deliberate low-pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage...
...attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with IQs of 30 to 50, some of whom must be shown how to tie their shoes or turn on a light, the outlook is for slower progress; most must spend the rest of their days under guardianship, and work, if at all, in "sheltered" industries beside others of their kind...
...Levy has deduced Shaw's outlook from his opinions, in a fair and critical way. Where necessary, he acknowledges the non-judicial prejudices that helped Shaw establish a doctrine (except in the liquor-licensing cases, where he curiously fails to consider whether Shaw's readiness to uphold the State's "police power" might have proceeded from the Chief Justice's own prohibitionist leaning...
...latest rise will bring escalator-clause pay boosts averaging 10 an hour. But a lot of less lucky American workers, and millions of people living on fixed incomes, are finding that, with prices going up, their standard-of-living escalators are going down. And the short-range outlook. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague glumly predicted last week, is that the index will continue to "creep up like this...
...even think of becoming skindivers : those with heart trouble or breathing difficulties, the obese, those who cannot easily equalize the pressure in their middle ear and sinuses, those with a perforated ear drum, and the reckless. Also, "men over 40 deserve special scrutiny." But the Navy expert's outlook, for all his warnings, is far from negative. Many physicians, notes 34-year-old Dr. Lanphier, a skindiver himself, regard diving as "a sport worthy of their own leisure moments. A more fascinating activity or a better means of keeping in condition is not easy to find...