Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARPA's $500 million budget). Among hard-pressed military missilemen, Critchfield raised hopes of at last finding a boss who knows his way around with two kinds of rare birds: missiles and scientists. Critchfield knows his way around in still another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds on any hand. "You're better off," said a poorer but wiser Convair colleague, "to give him your paycheck to start, and stay out of the game...
...engaged in a battle for our laws and courts, for the preservation of our freedom and way of life . . . We should have the backbone to stand against any tyranny, whether of some individual willing to sell our birthright for a mess of political pottage on the national level, or the reformers that would make us over according to the mess they have made for themselves, including the board of sociology garbed in judicial robes and dishing out the precedents of Gunnar Myrdal...
...desperate goal-line stand in the closing seconds of the game gave the Crimson football team a 27-20 victory over Brown in 1953. Six years have passed since that triumphant November afternoon, and the varsity has yet to register another win against the Bruins. No other rival, not even Yale or Princeton, can claim such domination over the Crimson...
...labor without duplicated effort. ¶ Eliminate firemen's jobs on diesels and other non-steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating employees when self-propelled equipment is used and eliminate multiple crew changes on short-run trains...
...only inconsistent, but hypocritical to take a moral stand against the affidavit, as the Faculty and the Administration have done, and then to imply that the affidavit is quite all right if the College does not have to administer it. If this noxious part of aid to education is to be eliminated, Harvard must refuse to participate in any program demanding such an affidavit, even those in which its only task is to distribute forms or lick a postage stamp...