Word: directs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Provost Buck's recent statement that the oaths are not University matters was a direct attempt to sidestep the issue and avoid making a decision, Bluestone maintained...
...most of the would-be guinea pigs had read into Krieg's cautiously worded study a promise that was not there-i.e., the prospect of an immediate cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...
Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic...
...They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give exporters "direct incentives." Said Hoffman: "Practically all Europe's exports are furnished by private producers. Governments may set targets ; they may exhort; but unless sales in dollar markets bring adequate rewards to sellers, the great effort required to enter and hold those markets will never be made...
Zaisser removed from the People's Police a hard core of former Nazi officers, carefully screened P.W.s and recruited youths. Then he set them up in Bereitschaften under direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and light artillery. In equipment they have a better start than did the bootleg German army of the '20s, which was also founded on a cadre of the best officer material...