Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower depended more and more on the counsels of Manager Adams. Ike's trust was especially earned in the episode of Dick Nixon's expense account, when many of the Eisenhower staff members panicked and began screaming for Nixon's head. Adams' advice was simple: "Sit tight and wait." Then he helped set up Nixon's effective television speech...
Over the opposition of out-of-office politicians, who denounced it as the wicked instrument of foreign powers (a British economist and a U.S. irrigation specialist sit on the board), Nuri es-Said has nursed the program through its first four years with a minimum of political graft. Today Iraq, a land of 80% illiteracy, $84-per-capita income and endemic trachoma, bilharziasis and malaria, stands on the threshold of economic expansion. It took courage to concentrate on long-term investments when demagogues demanded relief here and now. but the first fruits of Iraq's wisdom are beginning...
Lead Gently. Of all the terms now used by the experts, none takes quite such a beating as "reading readiness." Critics denounce the idea as a nonsensical waste of time; some teachers take it so literally that they simply sit around waiting for their pupils to start reading on their own. By modern theory, a child is not "ready" for printed symbols until he has a mental age of about 6½. Though some children do learn long before by some process of their own, most must be led gently into it. The ideal readiness program is not only supposed...
...Thompsonville, Conn., the parents of Seventh Grader Shirley Richardson vowed to continue fighting to establish their right to decide what their daughter should wear to school. For the five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White disapproved of her corduroy slacks. When her parents argued that Shirley wore slacks because of a leg operation, White replied that he wanted to see a doctor's affidavit. The school board turned down an appeal from the Richardsons' attorney...
...cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...