Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this ironic description, coined at a Harvard-Yale dinner last fall be taken too seriously, it must be stressed that the strong powers which the Administration undoubtedly possesses can be exercised only because the President and his Dean have won the confidence of their watchdog groups. Yet once there is this basic confidence, the Administration is able to battle for its programs and can generally finesse opposition...
Sugar Cane & Shells. In an age already short on privacy, the danger is apparent, but most of the watchdog work of television thus far has been beneficial. TV cameras, trimmed down to shoebox size and able to see in the dark when used with infra-red light, can go places and do things too dangerous for humans...
...industry has made the greatest use of watchdog TV. At an annual saving of $12,000 in guard salaries, Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts posts TV cameras for 24-hour watch of 300 yards of fence. Television eyes help check the speed of sugar cane moving along a conveyor belt at the Ewa Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television...
...help. His desperate pleas for a battlefield truce to save Dienbienphu's wounded met with bland delay from the Communists. Behind him, France's divided government nagged at him. Burly Marc Jacquet, Minister for the Associated States, sent to Geneva to act as a kind of watchdog for the quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does not negotiate while his policy is being debated behind his back," he snapped to Premier Laniel...
...said that he had intended to run the review without Hopkinson's byline, but it was mistakenly left on. Hopkinson took his complaint to Britain's year-old but already moribund Press Council, a group of 25 newsmen and publishers who are supposed to act as "watchdogs" of the British press. Last week, for the first time, the watchdog stood up and really...