Word: stiffeners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Littauer should not junk the extension program, for it is most valuable in its field. Nor can it stiffen its admissions requirements, for the extensioneers should be chosen primarily for their agricultural, not their scholarly ability. What Littauer can tamper with, however, is the doctor's degree itself. If the degree clearly indicated that the extension doctorate was in agricultural studies alone, there could be no complaints that standards were being diluted. For the farm educators' purposes, this qualification would rub no shine off their sheepskins. And it would close a loophole through which many academically average students have been...
...empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen Shivers' backbone. South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes took him under his wing last year, arranged Shivers' election as chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference...
...excellent reason--if backfires. Inaccurate charges of enemy brutality actually spur the enemy to further violations, and prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered our attempts to arrange a speedy truce in Korea; it also bloated the facts about Communist atrocities into unpalatable exaggeration...
...telegrams began trickling in. Congress would take some stirring. The banking committees of both houses had held six weeks of hearings, heard more than a hundred witnesses, and had barely gotten down to writing a bill. They showed little sympathy for the President's request for authority to stiffen rent controls and to tighten credit. Likeliest action: a last-minute 30-to-60-day extension of the present...
...cultural attache at the Free Commonwealth embassy, life holds neither personal nor political problems. Communism is his crutch and his faith. When Paris nightclubs, dressing gowns and mistresses begin to turn him a little soft, he has only to read a page or two of Marx and Engels to stiffen up again...