Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college by the American Institute of Management. For five months, A.I.M.'s experts worked on their "public service" inspection. Their tests concluded, they found that Whitman's strong points (e.g., good academic courses, an attentive student body) more than compensated for its weaknesses (e.g., a cumbersome administrative setup, spotty alumni financial support). A.I.M.'s President Jackson Martindell gave Whitman what amounted to a B-plus-8,100 out of a possible 10,000 points...
Bricker knew that hard-core support for his original amendment had dwindled to 20 Senators. There remained, however, a much larger group in favor of some change in the treaty-making setup. In a search for compromise, earnestly pursued both by Bricker and Eisenhower representatives, proposal after proposal was tried and discarded. But by week's end, the basis for negotiations had narrowed to a draft made by Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George...
There is much, beyond the pulse of the story, to enhance the court-martial setup. The charge against Maryk of seizing com mand during a typhoon on the ground that Queeg was mentally ill - is an un hackneyed one. Again, Maryk's lawyer, Lieut. Barney Greenwald, would far rather be prosecuting than defending his client - and indeed wins him an acquittal by not defending him. Instead, he attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...
...working with the Communists Recently, on the urging of the Holy Office, the Pope sent verbal orders that the movement be suppressed, but the French cardinals managed to persuade the Pope to allow the worker-priests to continue "in principle," after some major changes in the setup...