Word: stopgaps
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...grudging reply, however, was already too late. Even though Egypt will probably accept the State Department's offer, it is t best a stopgap measure--a piece of undeserved candy with which to coax a precocious Egypt back into the Western fold. Russia has won a diplomatic victory by forcing the U.S., as the saying goes, either to "put up or shut up" over the Egyptian dam project...
...engine, which Westinghouse was then developing. The improved model was to go into the Demon fighters. But Westinghouse ran into a multitude of troubles. It lacked the engineers and experimental facilities to develop the engine which proved full of bugs, e.g., excessive fuel consumption. As a stopgap, when the Navy was desperately in need of jet fighters for the Korean war, the J40 was installed in the Demon fighters. But finally, when development of the new model fell behind schedule, the Navy canceled the contract...
...that time this year's upperclassmen will have left the College. During these next three years, however, they will welcome any stopgap measures towards relieving overcrowding in the Houses. The Administration has already taken several such measures this fall. Qualified seniors have been allowed to live in private quarters, and three additional buildings, one of which is very well equipped, have been set aside to house the upper class overflow. Even the placing of temporarily homeless students on daybeds for a couple of weeks, bothersome as this may be to their hosts, is preferable to last year's remedy...
...next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about decided on Cockney Herbert Morrison, Attlee's longtime lieutenant and a seasoned party organizer. But Herb Morrison, at 67, is destined to be a stopgap party chief...
...fight those radicals? Los Angeles public health officials could suggest only stopgap measures: 1) see a doctor if eyes or throat are severely irritated, 2) bathe eyes with eye drops, 3) visit a friend who has air conditioning, or go to a movie, 4) relax so as to breathe less...