Word: latter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City for church duty...
...imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University assumes full responsibility for permitting its professors to express certain opinions in public, or it assumes no responsibility whatsoever, and leaves them to be dealt with like other citizens by the public authorities." The University steered always by the latter course under President Lowell and consequently left its faculty free to say whatever they wished, provided they did so as independent citizens rather than representatives of the University...
...bench, Michigan's Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker, more widely known as best-selling Novelist Robert Trover (Anatomy of a Murder), made up his mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other lawyers may write my opinions, they can scarcely write my books...
...impact on the uncommitted depends not only on the level of our economic aid but equally importantly on the dynamism and conviction of our domestic performance. It is with respect to the latter that I said that the present pedantry in the West is not likely to prove very appealing to the new nations. The whole point of my remarks, however, was that the United States could easily double its economic aid program, that Western Europe could participate at our present level and that this should be a joint effort...
...realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises," as Author Hughes asserts, he would have no audience to address. If latter-day U.S. foreign policy had failed as persistently as Author Hughes argues it has. there would be no great expectations to invoke or disappoint, either at home or abroad...