Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norman F. Ramsey, associate professor of Physics, told the meeting that the amendments would lead to a weakening of national security by "diluting" security standards, that they would tend to drive scientists into other fields. Ramsey also revealed that the Physics department intended unanimously to protest the amendments...
...Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne. He earned six battle clasps for his Victory Medal, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, three Purple Hearts, five Silver Stars. He had also won the Congressional Medal of Honor for twice dashing through an open, mustard-drenched field under "extreme enemy fire" to tend wounded marines...
...position-particularly on the U.S.-backed European payments scheme: 1) the United Kingdom's dollar reserves are so low that she cannot commit herself to any plan that would mean a further drain; and 2) as banker to the sterling area, Britain can do nothing that would tend to disrupt that trading system...
...Parallel. By the jobs he has held and from his few public statements known to the West, Malenkov may be classified as a practical more than a theoretical Marxist. His talent and the stages of his career tend to parallel those of Stalin. He is unquestionably a first-rate organizer, with a flair for totalitarian political management. As a party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before...
...with what they consider the Hungarian church's lukewarm defense of Bishop Lajos Ordass, who is serving a two-year prison term for alleged improper registering of funds received from the U.S., have sent no aid to Hungary for the past two years. The Hungarian message did not tend to change their minds. Said Dr. Paul Empie, executive director of the National Lutheran Council: "The statement is an obvious effort to show that they have a unique situation which we in the West are in no position to judge . . . But until our delegation can get there and confirm...