Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after Wilson said it would be reached. Even then, the 120 wings would have insufficient equipment and manpower. Contracts already let would have to be canceled, creating the danger that "large segments of the aircraft industry would be cut so sharply that they could not adequately respond to later aircraft orders...
...Prime Minister's speech was the thought that at last we are to have a British policy." Words of No Offense. After the first flushes of British nationalism came colder second thoughts. "Magnificent," said the Economist of the speech, "but was it policy?" Tories-who seemed to respond happily only to Churchill's truculence over Egypt and not to his soft hints to Moscow-reminded their friends that Sir Winston, at 78, is determined to be known to history as Winston the Peacemaker, as well as Winston the Warrior. The old man, they say, is consumed with curiosity...
Each member of the freshman class who now takes a course with sections may be evaluated in a "Confidential Guide to the Class of 1956," if enough section men respond to a request for such evaluations soon...
...caution should be added. Those who find encouragement in the Bowers decision must remember that it does not deny an investigating committee the right to ask questions which are not pertinent to the subject matter under inquiry. All that it holds is that the witness who refuses to respond to such questions is not guilty of criminal conduct. That holding, though limited, should not be overlooked by persons who are concerned with the impact of congressional investigations on American universities. Mark DeW. Howe...
...world and its worries with the Long View of history. Man, says Toynbee, with a Balliol-bred benignity of wit and grace of phrasing, is but a scurrying creature on a cosmic anthill who may be, but is not necessarily, doomed. It all depends on how the scurriers respond to challenge...