Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard University, "because it is a great educational institution, was singled out by the Party as a prime target for infiltration," explained Philbrick, who called this a "back-handed compliment." But the speaker cautioned at some length against condemning a man just because of past membership in a front organization. "There was once a man named Senator McCarthy," he remarked, "for whom there were only good guys and bad guys, and this was a very bad mistake...
...Prime Minister Nehru deplores the trend toward "giganticism" in modern industrial society, but when it comes to his own economy, he flatly says: "We must think in terms of large schemes." This week two of his large schemes made news as the first blast furnaces of two vast new steel mills were formally commissioned...
...Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, following the titled Englishman's traditional way to pin money, put some furniture on sale at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, realized $271.60 for a pair of four-poster beds, $1,232 for two 18th century bookcases...
Oligarchy of Patriarchs. Prime objective of the next council will be "to invite the separated religious communities . . . to seek the unity of the church, desired by so many souls all over the world." Said John XXIII: "We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father . . . they will not enter a strange house but their own." Prime target among the "separated religious communities" is Eastern Orthodoxy. In Pope John's first public speech the day after his election, he went out of his way to beam benevolence toward the estimated 150 million communicants who are spiritual descendants...
...dairy products; and Hohei Sugimatsu, president of the Nissan Chemical Co. One of Hokkaido's noted scholars is Physicist Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya, a world-respected authority on snow crystals and the elasticity of ice. Since development of the rugged northern island (pop. 5,000,000) is a prime government objective, it seems certain that Hokkaido University will keep on growing...