Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly bucking a House majority, including Speaker Sam Rayburn. "The Speaker asked me to get it out of the Rules Committee," says Virginian Smith. "I told him I wouldn't if I could help it. I'm against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...
...dissenting brethren did not concede was that by attempting to wipe out by judicial decree the principle and practice of centuries, they were arrogating to themselves a very real sort of omnipotence. That fact was pointed out in an opinion, concurring with the majority, by Felix Frankfurter: "To be sure, it is never too late for this court to correct a misconception in an occasional decision. [But] to say that everybody on the court has been wrong for 150 years and that that which has been deemed part of the bone and sinew of the law should now be extirpated...
...Until someone read the rule book, the university golf team, which often practices at private clubs, faced a season of play restricted to public courses. A likely looking 19-year-old sophomore who had transferred from Doane College, Crete, Neb. seemed certain to make the team-and just as sure not to be welcome at Denver's private clubs. The promising golfer is named Nate Goldstein. He is a Negro...
...viruses) that cause the first stages of a cold. He concentrated on the bacteria, believing that they cause the most distressing middle stages. He took throat swabs and saliva from his subjects, threw away those from the 75 controls. From the other 109 he cultured the bacteria to make sure there were no deadly strains among them, then hand-tailored an individual "autogenous vaccine" for each subject. Injections were given weekly...
...services at lower prices than at higher prices. It amounts to repealing the principles of economic behavior in a private-enterprise economy. It rejects the essential readjusting mechanism, flexible pricing, which can contribute so much to sustained high levels of employment and output. It ignores-but, you may be sure, it does not repeal-the law of supply and demand...