Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case for the present system rests on the fact that in 1948, when there was no conscription, manpower was about 600,000 short of actual needs; that the present draft not only adds men directly to the armed forces, but creates a pressure that persuades others to volunteer. Moreover, the concept of "universal service" has worked thus far in practice (nine out of ten men now twenty-six are serving their obligation) and is patriotic in theory...
...cost to the U.S. Treasury. In practice, the arrangement would work like the long-successful sugar quota system, which guarantees producing nations specific shares of U.S. sugar imports each year. By assigning each coffee country a sure market for a set amount of coffee, the quotas should discourage the present wild overproduction and cutthroat competition among the surplus-ridden growers...
...Youth (by Tennessee Williams) is very close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...
...best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through Roman streets on his own. They call him "Johnnie Walker...
Author Linklater's moral is clear: the past may be laughable, but the present is beneath contempt...