Word: skimped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the parsimonious mood of Congress, McNamara is criticized for having failed to allot enough defense funds for long-range planning. For three years, the war has forced the Pentagon to skimp on research and development. Says John S. Foster Jr., 45, director of defense research and engineering: "If this trend were allowed to continue, our national technological position soon would be crippled...
Little Nibbles. Troops manning the guardposts must skimp along on only four or five hours of sleep a night, live on C rations and accustom themselves to an eerie and tense life during their temporary duty. There is seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across...
...food problem. Though he called for the nation to emulate him, Prime Minister Shastri is about the only Indian who dug up his lawn for a garden, and his skip-a-meal-a-week plan is also largely ignored. Snaps one young Indian editor, who refuses to skimp on meals: "Why should I suffer for the folly of others...
...socialist deodorant. Still, a mass-consumption society is a long way off. For one thing, four-fifths of the country's production remains in industrial goods; for another, the average wage of $ 151 a month does not go much beyond bare necessities. The East German worker must skimp to buy coffee at $9 a lb., a TV set at $500, or the cheapest 26 h.p. car at $2,000. Last year 62,698 cars were made for a country of 17 million people; naturally, the waiting lists are long...
...council sees it, key solutions include solid sabbaticals to retread teachers, summer institutes that really teach English (many just skimp it), helpful supervision by master English teachers rather than bureaucratic administrators. The majority of high school teachers, says the council, "have never had an opportunity to confer with a college professor of English or English education or with a special English supervisor." Without reforms, warns James R. Squire, the council's executive secretary, English classes across the country will go on wallowing in "dull, lifeless teaching" devoid of "one iota of excitement...