Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might well have become the Army's basic infantry weapon, but while it was being developed and tested Belgium's famed Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came...
...Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship at U.S.C. (major: business administration), where he got standard financial aid: tuition plus $75 a month for doing a job little more demanding than checking each morning to see that the 50-yd. line was still there. (Later, when he switched to shotputting, Parry's duties consisted of taking care of the shotput ring...
...biggest challenges to the new conservative is to broaden educational opportunity. To business, which is donating $100 million a year (up 25% since 1955) to private schools and colleges, education is more than a means of providing trained personnel. Reasons Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey Chairman Eugene Hoiman: "A creative society must be a free society, built on men and women who are broadly educated to manage their own affairs. The only sure guarantee of progress comes from helping millions of individuals to arrive at their maximum potential, to express themselves, to turn loose their initiative and ingenuity...
During the first year, the Kennel Club "recognized" only two of Wright's carefully bred puppies. Later generations, carefully chaperoned, have approached the standard more closely. Now there are 22 recognized Xolos, and more on the way. Rules have been set up to keep unrecognized Xolos, even though of ancient Aztec ancestry, from sullying the breed. Buyers of the real McCoy must sign an agreement to destroy all nonstandard pups. No owner may breed his Xolo without consulting Wright's committee...
...that the reader cannot help projecting it onto a big screen, with Gary Cooper doing a wonderful job as Lat Evans. But throughout These Thousand Hills there are fine evocations of what the country was like, the authentic sense of place that is Guthrie's trademark. Even the standard brushes with Indians and rustlers have a quality of this-is-how-it-was, and the speech rings as true as the slap of a silver dollar on a saloon...