Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered the liberals as a compromise. But even as Kansas' Schoeppel stood to spring the Mundt nomination. Bridges genially drifted around the caucus table, switched just enough probable Mundt votes to elect Kuchel by exactly the same...
...from NATO and Communist East Germany from the Warsaw Pact; 2) early withdrawal of all foreign troops-a plan that differed not much from a Russian plan that the U.S. had rejected as outrageous almost five years before. Amiably, Anastas Mikoyan added that, after all, bargaining is bargaining, so take an extreme position, then compromise. He amiably went on his way saying everything but "Make me an offer...
...high schools have been closed since last September, U.S. Judge John E. Miller forbade the newly elected school board to transfer school property to private-school groups or impede the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals integration mandate. The court did not order schools reopened, but told board members "to take affirmative steps on their own initiative" to integrate once schools are open, and to report such steps to him within 30 days...
...suffering from running behind; 2) the possibilities of gigantic military advantage loom for the nation that first makes space its backyard. Reported the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration last week: "Inexorable changes in society and political power will follow the development of space capabilities; failure to take account of them would virtually be to choose the path of national extinction. Space developments already have changed the course of world history as inevitably as the discovery of America changed the history of Europe...
...were toughened; minimum requirement in the Army General Qualification Test was boosted from a ten-point score out of 100 to 31. The tightening-up process extended to troops in service; e.g., 71,000 "eightballs" fingered by their C.O.s were honorably discharged last year, and technicians were ordered to take periodic tests to win promotion or prove competency...