Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, Dwight Eisenhower stood on the edge of a congressional defeat. At issue was S. 144, the relatively trivial Rural Electrification Administration bill, which would transfer power to approve or reject REA loans from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson to power-hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly...
What if the Russians reject the West's package? The British, believing that something will still have to be done about Berlin, suggested that the U.N. might be called in. In a speech to Copenhagen students last week, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold carefully warned that "practical considerations alone" would prevent the U.N. from taking upon itself "administrative tasks which require political decisions." The U.S. is willing to add some sort of U.N. presence in Berlin, but nothing that weakens the West's right to have its own troops there...
...bill is a major step toward legal regulation of unions. To reject the bill because it is too weak, as was done last year, would be shortsighted and stupid. The Senate has made a first move toward regulating labor by bills which are not merely imposed willy-nilly on the unions; to refuse the advance just because it is not of the ideal dimensions would be a major blunder...
...there's not nearly the chagrin in going to a second choice college there was fifteen years ago," MacDonald pointed out. "There are Harvard faculty with children in colleges they would barely have heard of a few years ago. In the prep schools, the Harvard reject goes off to a school slightly down the ladder along with some other Harvard rejects...
...this stage, Harvard can reject those Harvard sons who "don't measure up" in good conscience, hoping that an alumnus will not take the blow too severely. But Harvard sons are going to apply in increasing numbers, and they will be smart and well-prepared. How does an admissions Committee which "gives the benefit of the doubt" now turn down alumni sons in the future, not on the basis that they are not good enough, but that someone else is better or more deserving...