Word: waned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great cholesterol controversy that has waged incessantly for the past decade was beginning to wane last week. As the American Heart'Association held its scientific sessions in St. Louis, even onetime skeptics were prepared to concede that abnormal quantities of fatty material in the blood should be regarded as one of the major factors in producing heart-artery disease.* Thirty-two papers were presented on the subject; the evidence seemed overwhelming. Said Minneapolis Physiologist Ancel Keys: "No one can say that the maintenance of a low level of blood cholesterol will positively prevent development of artery disease...
After the Corporation move, Crimson sailing seemed on the wane. A coterie of spent Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons racing MIT dinghies around MIT markers off the MIT Pavilion in the Charles Basin. This group comprised the varsity and Freshman sailing teams...
...sharpest spur in the Kennedy camp's intense drive to put Jack over on the first ballot was the lurking fear that Lyndon Johnson was probably right in his prediction that if Jack failed to win on an early ballot his strength would start to wane. To help ensure a first-ballot victory, Jack Kennedy had offered Adlai Stevenson a chance to be Secretary of State in the Kennedy Administration. Kennedy was furious when Stevenson temporized...
Incumbent Smith currently has the edge in the Senate race. But the Republican reign in Maine has been slowly on the wane. And Lucia Cormier is bound to be helped by the fact that the state's Democratic slate is headed by one of Maine's champion vote getters, two-term Congressman Frank Morey Coffin, 40, scion of an old Maine Democratic family (his grandfather, grandmother and mother held political offices in the state), who put off his own ambitions for the Senate to run for the patronage-heavy Governor's seat, now occupied by young...
...convinced that her own one absolute is reason, Author Rand has gone so far as to boast: "I have never had an emotion that I couldn't account for." Less fortunate people, she suggested last week at Yale, can blame Immanuel Kant. Just when faith was on the wane, and self-interest had a foot in the door, he "saved the morality of altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that...