Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Intelligence Agency's privileged hush-hush irritates many a Congressman, and Montana's well-meaning Senator Mike Mansfield had little diffi culty in finding 34 co-sponsors last January for his resolution proposing a joint congressional watchdog committee over CIA. Said Mansfield thoughtfully: "If we accept this idea of secrecy for secrecy's sake, we will have no way of knowing whether we have a fine intelligence service or a very poor...
Although the watchdog theory may have been effective in the bygone days of tutoring schools, it seems superfluous today. Students who really want to cheat can probably outwit the examiners. A proctor would be necessary for virtually every student to prevent an occasional cheater from consulting his small sheet of math formulas or list of important dates...
...Excellent Condition." There was satisfying evidence of work done. The President appointed an eight-man watchdog committee, headed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr., to examine and report on the work of the U.S. intelligence agencies. He sent to Congress a message proposing a fiveyear, $2 billion federal aid program for public-school construction. He asked Congress to appropriate $60 million for flood relief. He accepted the resignation of Treasury Under Secretary H. Chapman Rose, who is returning to his Cleveland law practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff...
...than just getting Queeg off his teetering bridge; some 50 sailors and Royal Marines are wounded, two die in a bloody free-for-all on the decks. The H.M.S. Ulysses is a 5,500-ton light cruiser, "the first completely equipped radar ship in the world," the seeing-eye watchdog of the Murmansk convoy run. Unlike that long-drawn-out, suspenseful business on the Caine, Ulysses' mutiny has already taken place, and this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal Navy, the mutiny was a lower-deck affair, and the only officer-villain goes overside...
Randolph takes on all comers. When most dailies ignored his speeches attacking "the river of pornography" in the press, he printed the talks in a shilling pamphlet called "What I Said About the Press." Later he stung the Press Council, the British newspapers' own watchdog on press ethics, into scolding Daily Sketch Editor Herbert Gunn for changing an adverse criticism of a movie that his wife helped make into a favorable review. By then Randolph was busily battling the trade weekly, World's Press News for suppressing the story of that dispute because, wrote Randolph, its boss...