Word: stopgap
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...unenlightened stopgap teachers reacted much like new children to the school's free atmosphere. They swore a great deal, were mean, spiteful and irresponsible. "Quite hopeless," says Mrs. Neill. No doubt they felt that they had a case. Says one current teacher: "Believe me, it is the hard way. Sometimes it is no longer possible to bear it. Then the only thing to do is to clear out completely for a few hours. The noise is the worst thing...
...solution to the problem of intellectual inbreeding at the top levels of Education. 1946 has not brought the answer, and while the last wave of veterans surges through the colleges, planners look to broad scholarship programs to take up the slack left by loose planning. Scholarships, too, are a stopgap measure compared to federal aid. But scholarships succeed in bringing leadership to the colleges, whereas Mr. Conant's two-year plan could do little but stunt and discourage this very leadership...
...stopgap legislation raised profound moral questions. Thoughtful citizens, well aware of the crisis, and generally applauding the President, would nevertheless wonder afterwards about the ethics of such atomic legislation...
...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...stopgap, Army & Navy top men would agree to the May-Bailey bill, which would penalize workers in nonessential jobs and force 4-Fs into war work. But they say that the only final solution in a total war is a national service...