Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into the defense program, old weapons should be phased out. All the while, Wilson has exercised an asset that was a prime reason for recruiting him. Handling the largest chunk of U.S. budget expenditures, he has gone a long way toward helping the nation get the maximum military strength for its money...
...Prime target of Carey's attack was the leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s biggest and most rambunctious affiliate- Dave Beck's scandal-tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took...
...alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation of most of the strategic state of Kashmir...
...first diversion from independent study is--and we bring this up with some hesitation--the increasing professionalism of extra-curricular activities. Drama is probably the prime example--with nine productions in two weeks last spring--but publications, radio, and music probably fit the pattern equally well. As the end product of students who came up the ranks learning-by-doing, this is natural and not necessarily a Bad Thing; but as a barrier to independent study, it must be taken into account in planning the curriculum, for it concerns over half the undergraduates...
...University obviously cannot afford to bother with considerations of taste, so Prime and Choice are out. If the University cannot afford prime or choice, we might as well have Utility. After all, if we have to choose between Commercial and Utility, it seems six of one and half dozen of another. They both sound beastly...