Word: perished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently ceased altogether to worry about ideology. Bruce Chapman, the publisher, has for the moment settled the problem with a few familiar and comfortable phrases "Republicans seem to understand that the GOP must find imaginative, affirmative answers to current problems," he writes, "answers consonant with our traditional principles, or perish as a major political force...
...only required to sit exams twice: a preliminary test his first year and the big ordeal his third and final year. Unlike its American counterparts, the University displays little faith that men can be pressured into scholarship. This applies to faculty as well as undergraduates. The 'Publish or Perish' formula exists, but only to a limited extent...
Last month another log was thrown on the fire by Lieut.Colonel Paul D. Hickman of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, who astounded a national security seminar in Honolulu by declaring that not only did at least two Russian astronauts perish in a space attempt, but that U.S. officials knew the name of one. The Pentagon hastily repudiated Hickman's admittedly unofficial information, adding that the Air Force had "absolutely no evidence" to support the assertion. But last week came a Washington whisper that the Pentagon did indeed have evidence. The new rumor: that U.S. radio-telemetry...
Keep in Tune. Last week, already pinched for money to support his vaunted aid programs to other African nations, Nkrumah bluntly ordered the Times and the News to pay their own way or perish. Worse yet, Accra rumor had it that Nkrumah intended to let both papers die and to replace them in a year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget...
...exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...