Word: threatenings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Questions like this seriously worry many members of the Faculty and Administration. How much will the influx of money threaten the autonomy of the university, or on a smaller scale, alter its operation? How much will federal funds affect the balance between different disciplines? But, though reservations are strong, it is clear that universities, Harvard included, want more federal money and that they will fight to get it: when President Johnson proposed that the NDEA program of student loans be substantially changed, universities yelled like hell, and, along with other affected interests, actually won a major modification in the President...
...construction bosses, executives, real estate salesmen and repair men. Undertakers in Chicago contact freelance embalmers by radio pager, and in Miami funeral directors are paged at graveside the same way. Off the Atlantic coast, fishing craft without ship-to-shore rigs are called in by radio pagers when storms threaten. In Denver, one motel-maintenance engineer packs a pager, and an executive beeps his daughter when he thinks that she ought to start home from an evening date...
...another time, the Nationalist Chinese might have rattled their rockets and threatened to take advantage of Red China's chaos by invading the mainland. Now, though a few officials gave in to the temptation to threaten, the response was remarkably restrained. The Nationalists know that they cannot move without U.S. aid and that, in any case, the Communists may destroy themselves without outside interference...
...instigation of provincial leaders want to increase factory and farm outputs and are evidently annoyed about a resolution to extend Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution into "the minds, the factories, and the countryside." The provincial leaders feel, justifiably, that this will hinder production and threaten their prestige...
...fluke, the Van Lawicks set out two ostrich eggs at a site some 60 miles away and sat back to see who would cast the first stone. Sure enough, the eggs were promptly attacked by two mature, stone-hurling Egyptian vultures, which aimed wildly, often pausing to threaten each other. After the pair finally had cracked and eaten the eggs, an Egyptian vulture that was lower in the social pecking order approached one of the empty shells and peppered it with 30 rocks, perhaps practicing for the day when he, too, would be lucky enough to have ostrich...