Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rights Party rallies in Princess Anne for ten days, and a later decision extended the ban for ten months. The States' Rights Party appealed, and the Maryland Court of Appeals has just ruled on both orders. In accordance with Justice Holmes's "clear and present danger" test, the court found that the ten-day curtailment of free speech was entirely allowable in the circumstances that existed in Princess Anne. But although "the remarks and epithets hurled at Negroes were nothing less than an invitation to mutual violence," the court held that the ten-month ban violated the racists...
...subcommittee's witnesses so far have tended to support the contention that generic-name drugs are potent and acceptable, they have also admitted that they cannot really sort out what is equal to what in the pullulating pill market. No one, it appears, has run a comprehensive test on an entire family of drugs, such as the cortisone-type hormones, which show fantastic price spreads, to see how they really compare in medical effectiveness. Not until laboratory experts agree on how to do that-and then do it-will it be possible to say which cheap drugs...
...Bank and United Nations representatives, lay Caterpillar's high-minded-and shrewd -concern with the plight of developing nations, which must start clearing their underdeveloped land if they are to meet the food needs of their burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range benefits from seeing foreign countries become agriculturally self-sufficient...
...same time war turns reason into stereotype. Acceptance of what in the beginning is an estimate of national interest becomes an article of faith, a test of constancy, a measure of patriotism. At least while it lasts, war has a way of freezing all participants in their original error...
...current reality of Josef Stalin. To some extent it was a doctrine recited to justify the political and legislative action -- alliances, military appropriations, economic and military aid -- which the proponents thought necessary. There is nothing especially remarkable in the discovery that a doctrine so contrived failed to stand the test of history. History is respectful of truth but not of official truth...