Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have legions of Peace Corps workers already in our country"-he mentioned ministers, parents, teachers, social workers, the police, and parole officers. The Administration argues that thousands of idealistic students and others need a Government agency (probably under the Health, Education and Welfare Department) to organize, pay and steer them into good works. "We need to offer visible avenues of service to these people," says a White House study group...
...president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 44, looked like a bright hope. A brilliant ex-civil servant who had held the top career post in the Dutch Foreign Office, he appeared to have both the drive and diplomacy to steer the world's fourth-largest international airline deftly through the financial perils of the jet age. Last week, with an abruptness that stunned the aviation industry, Van der Beugel (pronounced van dare Bur-gel) resigned his job and checked into a hospital in The Hague, suffering from what...
...powers denied him by the distrustful military when he assumed the presidency in September 1961. In public. Goulart takes care not to antagonize the left by seeming to knuckle under the U.S. Privately, he says reassuringly that once the plebiscite is out of the way he will try to steer Brazil back to a middle road between East and West, will work at restoring order to the economy. Until election day Jan. 6, this would have to be taken on faith...
Chemist Champagnat has a growing affection for his busy oil bugs which he claims are much faster workers than steen A 1,000-lb. steer that is properly fed synthesizes 1 lb. of protein in 24 hours. In the same period 1,000 Ibs. of oil bugs grazing on petroleum gam 5,000 Ibs., of which 2,500 Ibs. are edible protein...
...weeks ago, Dean Monro reopened the controversy with a warning to undergraduates to steer clear of psilocybin and other "consciousness-expanding drugs" because they pose a "serious hazard to the mental health and stability of even apparently normal people...