Word: unsounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department, say J.D. critics, the way to get a good Government legal job is to make good grades in a good law school. They propose upgrading law schools instead of renaming law degrees. Harvard's Law Dean Erwin N. Griswold calls the J.D. movement "unwise, unsound and undesirable...
...none of his rigorous childhood lessons really stuck. When he was 14, he threw his history teacher into a flap by stating that he thought most of the details of his supposedly divine descent were pure moonshine. They had to be, he pointed out politely, because they were biologically unsound and physically impossible...
...from its new Palmer St. annex. The City Council approves Harvard's plan to build a pedestrial mall between the Yard and the Law School. Twenty second-year Med students ask for independent study instead of lectures and lab sessions; professors criticize the request as foolish, unwise, and economically unsound. The CRIMSON reports that Cliffies will begin using Lamont next Fall if President Pusey approves. The Harvard Undergraduate Council disapproves, citing "the male emotional stability factor." Only a third of the freshmen polled by the Yardling credit Cliffies with having good personalities and only a seventh think them good-looking...
...plane, and ultimately has to be paid for by the passenger. Every modern plane is structurally safe according to rigid Government standards, but airlines have been known to put pressure on planemakers to work closer and closer to the lower levels of acceptability. Mechanics do not knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure to keep those planes in the air can be subtly intense. Occasionally, the mechanics slip; in 1961, a Northwest Orient plane's aileron cables were improperly installed, causing...
...minimum necessary to assure the security of our forces and to maintain our military presence until we can achieve a satisfactory peaceful resolution of the conflict. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives...