Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaven is kindness and charity, "Minnie" Smith probably looked down and smiled when she saw TIME'S Nov. 17 cover of her son, American Airlines' C. R. Smith. Not only did Minnie [see cut] support and educate a family of seven children, but she also, during the latter part of her life, helped scores of struggling students (including myself) at the University of Texas...
...Vice-Presidency), proclaimed that "we already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well as the other members of the American Government, wish to assure you in these difficult times of undiminished American support." As if to underscore U.S. bipartisanship in Berlin, a U.S. congressional delegation of one Republican, three Democrats, toured both halves of Berlin, after which Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays summed up: "The one thing the Communists respect is force. We must take a strong position and not retreat...
...first time since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began buying corn to support its price (in 1933), farmers voted last week to abolish the acreage controls that went with the high, rigid props. In 26 commercial corn states 346,976 farmers voted 71.1% for a new program proposed by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year...
...This was the first clear-cut, realistic choice farmers have ever had on the question of controls versus freedom of decision," crowed Benson. "Farmers are now free to plant as much or as little corn as they wish, with the safeguard of a reasonable support level. They have acted in their own, best long-term interests...
...with crew, because crew is an old and traditional sport; it is contained within the multitudes of the meaning of Harvard. And besides, it has an overwhelming reserve of alumni financial support. All of which does to prove, of course, that the University has learned that it's easier to ski down a hill than to row up a hill against the current...