Word: recordation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Irresistible Barbs. These were charges that barely supported the dutiful, day-to-day headlines. Most of Hickenlooper's facts & figures had been gathering dust in committee files for months. And just three weeks ago Hickenlooper himself had publicly praised the "record of loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal...
...Lilienthal admitted. But it had lost them for the same reasons that made many citizens reluctant to trade the security and rewards of private life for the hazards, the glare and the low pay of Government office. As for the rank & file, he pointed out that AEC's record compared almost exactly with figures on turnover for all Government agencies...
Angrily, the court ordered the answer stricken from the record. The long-sought hour of martyrdom was at hand. The entire defense, counsel and defendants, was on its feet, roaring and waving its arms at the court. Judge Medina hastily ordered the jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged...
...took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
Since he has been conducting in Washington, Dick Bales's record for doing right by U.S. composers is rivaled only by his famous teacher, the Eastman School's Howard Hanson, and by the annual Columbia University festival. In all, Bales has given Washington some 500 American-composed works and the premières of about...