Word: ler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopkins next cast his eye on a company that was nearly twice as big as both Canadair and Electric Boat together: California's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair), sixth largest U.S. airframe manufacturer. Convair-had been having its ups and downs, and Owner Floyd Odium ler in developing the hydrogen bomb...
...Butler's crisis budget had accomplished what Attlee and his squabbling lieutenants could not do themselves: it united the opposition and gave them a flaming issue. A Laborites' censure motion roundly accused the government of "incompetence and neglect." The man chosen to lead the attack was But ler's opposite number: former Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell, 49, a brilliant Oxford don whose economic philosophy is so similar to Butler's own that Britons lump them together in a single word: Butskellism. Cold, handsome Hugh Gaitskell is tipped by insiders as Attlee's probable successor...
...much like anything else: "Perhaps all that can be done is to describe it as a phenomenon, as a byproduct of life, and like life to be immeasurable by any standard and equally shapeless." As for democracy, "I do not know what it is ... But I fear that Hit ler's assertion - that his ideological concept was the democratic concept - will prove a hard one to refute." If he is not the former Nazis' favorite postwar writer, he should...
...witness stand, McCarthy spoke about witnesses who are "flagrantly dishonest." Sneering at his good friend from Idaho, Republican Senator Henry Dworshak, McCarthy announced that his first choice as an substitute for himself was actually Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler. McCarthy snarled: "Senator But ler was not feeling well. I now wish he had been feeling well. Because of the temporary disability of Senator Butler, and for that reason alone, I nominated-Senator Dworshak...
Since Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the Western world has been able to understand, however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect...