Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chamber was almost deserted when Lawyer Dodd. veteran of two terms (1953-57) in the House, rose at his back-row desk, laid his speech on a lectern, and speaking in a clear, strong voice began working his way through his careful logic...
...Lives . . . The debate reached its argumentative climax when Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright rose up to do battle on the point of morality. Dodd's claim that Berlin is a "moral issue," said Fulbright, "means, I take it, that political implications are secondary and that . . . evil is all that is involved. In that case I think there is no hope whatever for any kind of adjustment or compromise, and therefore we must reconcile ourselves to inevitable war ... I should like to proceed on the premise that it is possible to find some adjustment in time...
...Council of Churches ever since its Fifth World Order Study Conference in Cleveland advocated recognition of Red China and admission to the U.N. (TIME, Dec. 1) In Hartford, Conn, last week, before a meeting of the policymaking General Board, National Council President Dr. Edwin T. (for Theodore) Dahlberg stiffly rose to answer the critics. Actually he sidestepped them by defending the church's right to take a stand on international issues, rather than specifically commenting on the China stand. Said he: "The church must in a sense function as the conscience of the nation. We are Biblically authorized...
Failure & Scandal. The result of all this is that farm productivity is soaring at a rate that once nobody believed possible. From 1938 through 1957, overall farm labor productivity rose at an annual average rate of 4.7% (v. 2.2% for the rest of the economy). Even more significant, productivity is increasing at an accelerating rate. Last year, it jumped 8%, as much as the increase for the decade 1920-30. This technological fact, ignored by the politicians, is what has made the farm-support program such a failure and scandal. Last year, with farmers paid $620 million to put land...
Majority's skillful, amiable performers almost camouflage its sociological pretensions. What Majority wants to be is an adult East-meets-Western. What it is is a middle-aged Abie's Irish Rose, and it may turn out to be almost as successful...