Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DALLAS MORNING NEWS : While Mrs. Luce's acid remark about the Senator after her confirmation by his colleagues was far from tactful, she was a much abused lady. Her reaction, if not diplomatic, was democratic. The sound in the offing is doubtless her fellow Americans crying "Hear, hear...
...massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate glass" to sound the general alarm for all-out nuclear...
...Bombay weekly deplored the fact that "the portfolio of Defense is in the hands of a Cabinet minister [Krishna Menon] known for his leanings toward Communism." Indians who have long scoffed at what they called the West's "preoccupation" with Communist plans for world conquest now sound much like the people they once derided...
...doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often work (one-third of Germany's labor force are women), as do children past 16. If salaries sound low, there are also the vital "fringe benefits" provided by the federal government. Steered by the "social free market" philosophy of Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard, the government pumps 40% of its budget revenues into social uses. Every German worker and his family get government-subsidized medical care. State...
...book suggests is that the quality of the teacher is far more important than the strictness, or permissiveness of the school. A system that ignores the worst kind of profanity in the classroom, and that encourages children to write corrosively candid weekly reports on their teachers, does not sound promising. But for Born Teacher Braithwaite it worked very well. When the tough-kid class graduated, its gift to Braithwaite was inscribed: "To Sir, with Love...