Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade following World War II," Warren continued, "there appeared a new kind of congressional inquiry unknown in prior periods of American history. Principally this was the result of the various investigations into the threat of subversion of the U.S. Government . . . This new phase of legislative inquiry involved a broad-scale intrusion into the lives and affairs of private citizens...
...superhighways will have a profound effect on the lives of the most mobile people on earth. One out of every seven Americans earns his living in some phase of highway travel; 80% drive to work; 85% take their vacations and pleasure trips by auto. Yet U.S. highways, sadly neglected during World War II, have fallen far behind the growing numbers of automobiles, trucks and buses, now up to 65 million. The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves...
...requirements did not, of course, end with excellence, because excellence alone does not define the University's concept of "a liberal education." Indeed, some maintain that excellence has very little to do with liberal education, and is but an inescapable phase of America. These voices added that since excellence was less emphasized by Harvard's anomic culture than by most universities, a Harvard education was perforce more "liberal...
...bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase of major labor warfare...
...starts with the Spenglerian notion that a society is like an organic plant, with a seasonal life cycle-spring, summer, autumn, winter. To this he adds the Spenglerian distinction between culture and civilization, i.e., during its culture phase a people paints its masterpieces, and during its civilization phase a people builds the museums to house the masterpieces it can no longer paint. Cultures are creative, instinctive, combative, individualistic. Civilizations are practical, scientific, peace-and-unity-minded, conformist...