Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press glibly termed (in the autumn of 1952) "the mess in Washington." More must come, a great deal more . . . I see three great areas of need in this clarification: 1) a study of the term "McCarthyism" . . . 2) a study of the "climate of treason" . . .3) 3 study of the unsound philosophies of social reform that made it possible to undermine democratic principles of loyalty, of patriotism, and of objective morality...
...only is the present system unsound in theory, it has also proven faulty in practice. Many students who could little afford the extra expense, have had to pay for their own hospitalization. House members, in one instance, were called upon to take up collections for a seriously injured player...
...conformity that immigrant scientists like Einstein and Fermi, men largely responsible for building the atomic bomb, came here to escape. In alienating foreign scientists, then, America may lose this fertile source of scientific excellence. Moreover, as scholars find greater respect in Europe than here, this policy is politically unsound...
Many unions fear that older workers who are on a pension would take lower pay and thus depress all wages. But the attitude is changing. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther now denounces compulsory retirement programs as "socially wrong and economically unsound." Actually, the enforced idleness of oldsters is estimated to cost the nation $5 billion a year in lost production, more than the annual cost of all industrial and governmental pension systems...
...Parsons gripped the dock rail tightly as the verdict was read: not guilty because of unsound mind at the time of the crimes. R.A.F. wives wept...