Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admiral's prescription for our time is perhaps the only possible: self denial, self discipline, and hard work, in school or out. To blame our schools for popular hedonism, complacency, chauvinism, or plain stupidity is dangerously simplistic. The underpaid, undertrained, and often underdeveloped minds which staff many of our classrooms make good scapegoats, but they are relatively helpless victims of the cultural tragedy which we are now enacting...
...thing as a stack pass. The small coterie of Ph.D. candidates and other devotees comes day after day from nine to five, with appropriate breaks, and may pore over the same ancient volumes for days. Others come and go, but these few remain, working closely with the reading room staff, who call them the "permanent members...
...bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...
...months that the chairmanship of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee was too much for him. Last December Green underwent surgery for cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion: "The time has come to say frankly that Senator Green can perform a final and unique service by stepping down as chairman...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a U.S. Air Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...