Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimistic are Alaskans on statehood, now that the House of Representatives has voted them toward membership in the Union, that they have a flag already prepared (see cut). The stars are neatly arranged, seven up, seven down. Only trouble: nobody is sure what a 49-star flag will look like officially-provided the bill passes the Senate. The U.S. Code does not stipulate the arrangement of stars, only that one shall be added for each new state, effective the Fourth of July following admission to the Union. In the congressional hopper are proposals, drawings and samples of 49-star flags...
...Senate for its low-pressure approach to a watered-down bill for extending unemployment compensation. The bill had already been passed by the House (TIME, May 12) and approved without a comma's change by Harry Flood Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. Last week it was shepherded toward quick passage by Virginia's Byrd himself...
...sense of Congress. Partly it was the firmed-up leadership lately shown by President Eisenhower. Partly it was the voice of the people: during their Easter recess (TIME, April 21) members of Congress heard unexpected grass-roots sentiments that many a Democratic state Governor had already detected, e.g., wariness toward tax cuts, disgust at the mud dredged up by the McClellan committee's labor investigation, widespread if reluctant acceptance of foreign aid as a cold-war necessity...
...partly it was the sheer weight of fact: farm prosperity, signs that the recession is easing, realization that the Government faces a deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...between potential roommates on how close the relationship between roommates should be, tends to confirm FIRO's compatibility predictions better than any other criterion used in the personality study. Among the other criteria considered are Inclusion, the amount of contact one desires with other people, and Control, different attitudes toward decision-making...