Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Threshold of an Era. One of the President's first official acts was to decree an end to the despised press censorship imposed by the interim administration last November. A few days later he asked Congress to lift the state of siege as of Feb. 15, ten days ahead of schedule. As a gesture to show that he expects no violence, Kubitschek plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. "I rely on this more than any bodyguard." he told a friend, patting a German-made .25-caliber automatic hidden beneath his well...
Steady Climb. In detailing where the U.S. now stands, the President noted that "we have reached the threshold of a $400 billion economy." The rise of the Gross National Product goes like this...
...British economist and a U.S. irrigation specialist sit on the board), Nuri es-Said has nursed the program through its first four years with a minimum of political graft. Today Iraq, a land of 80% illiteracy, $84-per-capita income and endemic trachoma, bilharziasis and malaria, stands on the threshold of economic expansion. It took courage to concentrate on long-term investments when demagogues demanded relief here and now. but the first fruits of Iraq's wisdom are beginning to ripen...
...Basic Weapon. The Sampleses' happy ending is just one of hundreds of reconciliations that have made Judge Burke's court a model of its type. The record of the Conciliation Court is astonishingly good: out of 2,074 divorce-bound couples who have crossed its threshold in the past two years, 887, or 43%, have been reconciled, and only a quarter of these patched-up homes have come apart again. In the rescued homes live 2,000 children -and Judge Burke frequently points out that seven out of every ten juvenile delinquents come from broken homes...
Self v. Good. It was a turning point in the saga of the empire, which, after a few disputed additions, was to grow only smaller. Already in London young Churchill, on the threshold of a brilliant parliamentary career, was immersed in discussions about colonialism and "the issue of whether peoples have a right to self-government or only to good government." The Sudan got "good" government. For centuries Arab slave traders from the north had raided the Negro villages of the south, sold their captives on eastern markets. The British put down the slave trade. The dancing Dervishes became respectable...