Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican Council has already tempered the harsh Augustinian notion that the sole purpose of marriage is procreation; the new concept is that marriage is first and foremost a "union of love...
What MacInnes does best is write a literate and believable story of suspense. At 58, she is a member of a disappearing breed, a natural storyteller who attempts neither to spoof her readers nor impress them with literary pretension. Her sole concern is a good story, and her characters are neither clowns nor antihero supermen, but human beings...
...liquidating venture," says McLaughlin. In 1953 he moved Homestake into uranium, which has since supplanted gold as the company's leading moneymaker, last year provided $2,500,000 of its $4,950,000 total profit on overall sales of $29.4 million. As with gold, the Government was the sole legal customer and fixed the price; besides, the Administration announced that its need for uranium would be satisfied by 1970. But a new contract with the Atomic Energy Commission allows the company to sell uranium commercially, and nuclear-minded private utilities promise a rich future market. Nevertheless, Homestake is diversifying...
...appreciated your excellent piece on the Berkeley, Calif., Police Department [Feb. 18]. Every word of it is correct. I have special pride in the department because I am the sole remaining member of the University of California group that helped Chief Vollmer establish a modern department. Soon after Vollmer (a former mail carrier) became chief, he consulted Professors Jessica Peixotto, A. M. Kidd and me. Dr. Peixotto was a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections and taught criminology; Professor Kidd taught criminal law; I, formerly at Stanford, had also taught criminology and been chairman of the probation...
...constructive role in the hammering-out of the best ways to deal with national problems. He refuses to recognize Congress's role as the only part of the national government which may publicly consider all alternatives on any given issue. The reforms he suggests for Congress would have the sole effect of weakening it further; Congressional leadership should be strengthened, for example, "so that it can act more quickly and comprehensively in harmony with the President...