Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's budget did not follow any doctrinaire political line. It was an Eisen hower budget, which called for such humanitarian goals as the broadening of social security (TIME, Jan. 25). One sentence in the budget message was enough to illustrate that Dwight Eisenhower was not trying to shunt 20 years of history. Said he: "On the other hand, estimated expenditures for the Tennessee Valley Authority,* urban development and redevelopment, college housing loans . . . the school lunch program, and several other programs of domestic importance will be the largest in our history...
...admission standards at Maryland and at Harvard are not alike. Maryland can take a high scorer with a low I.Q. and shunt him off to study physical education. At the College, athletes must tread the same rigorous academic road as their less muscular brethren. No one has ever qualified for entrance, much less a stipend, merely because of a broad back and a strong...
Almost from infancy Bob had an amazing sense of coordination. "He never fell off chairs or ran into things," Dr. Mathias noted. When eight-year-old brother Gene began bringing his friends home to play ball, they tried to shunt five-year-old Bob aside. But they soon discovered their mistake. "The older kids noticed that Bob threw the ball harder than they could-and could catch it better," Mrs. Mathias recalls. "So Robert [the family all call him that] made the 'team' even back then. We knew we had an athlete on our hands...
...city, killing 79 passengers and six of Elizabeth's citizens. City officials blamed the airport for routing the planes over their homes, demanded that the field be shut down. The Port of New York Authority announced that it was rushing work on a new runway that would shunt most of the traffic away from Elizabeth...
...Defense Secretary Marshall "defended the many administration policies, in the formulation of which he had presumably played a part." He seemed peculiarly "uninformed" and inclined to shunt many of the questions to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who sometimes seemed embarrassed by the chore of supporting...