Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from true; scientific methods are reasonably above reproach, but those who use them are subject to human shortcomings. The simple principles by which we have so far lived are now inadequate. The difficulties of formulating new principles might be neatly resolved by a Second Coming, but rather than wait for that, we had all better try to think the matter through at once...
Second Rank. Behind these three is another trio, still not counted out. Adolfo López Mateos, 47, is the handsome Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, is on close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams...
...idea I have followed all my life-to be practical, not idealistic. My critics always want the ideal. If everything comes as you like it, what's the use of ability? This is my doctrine: never be an idealist, use what's available, don't wait till everything is perfect and miss your chance...
...competition for available funds, many borrowers decided to wait. The U.S. Public Housing Administration, which borrows funds for subsidized-rent public-housing projects, announced it would be out of the bond market until fall unless money loosened up considerably. Southern California Edison Co., after taking a look at the market, withdrew a $30 million preferred-stock issue until the time for borrowing was more propitious...