Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own great responsibilities by seeking to have a settlement decreed by Government action." So obstinately opposed were the parties to the dispute that Chief U.S. Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan, without hope of meeting the President's plea for nonstop negotiations, said he would "schedule meetings as they seem most productive...
Making the event seem as unremarkable as possible, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd announced to the House of Commons in his most toneless voice last week that "the governments of the United Arab Republic and the United Kingdom have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations at the level of chargé d'affaires." Harried, tight-lipped Selwyn Lloyd is the last survivor in office of the luckless foursome of Eden, Lloyd, Mollet and Pineau, who together planned the ill-fated invasion of Suez...
...expectation of high returns by local investors. In an area where investment firms guarantee 8% and manufacturing profits sometimes top 50%, investors are loath to accept less, and dislike U.S.-type management, which believes in building up large reserves, plowing profits back into expansion. Nevertheless, the investors seem to be swinging around to the U.S. concept. In Brazil, where U.S. owners in 1945 held 95% of the stock in 67 companies, today they hold 95% in only 17 companies, as local capital moves in to fill...
...Preoccupation with the manpower aspects of education, however statesmanlike," wrote Faust, "runs into the fundamental question whether the individual exists for society or society for the individual. On this question, the American commitment would seem to be clear, that the individual is not primarily to be regarded as a resource of the state but the state as a means for assuring the full flowering of the individual . . . There are already signs that many parents are disinclined to bring up their children as manpower resources...
...intellectual aplomb was shattered by the revelations of Professors Schlesinger and Galbraith that the Corporations has overtly discriminated against deserving Democrats. It would seem that possibly as many as twenty-three deserving Republicans have received honorary degrees, while only four democrats have been so honored by Harvard...