Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking out of her picture window one morning last week, Mrs. Morris Courington, wife of a Chicago merchandising executive, helplessly worried about the model suburban home going up across the street. "It just can't happen in Deerfield," she said. "It just can't." Like almost everybody else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board...
Also no help to NATO morale is the attitude of France's Charles de Gaulle who now openly, almost contemptuously, rejects integrated European defense, the very cornerstone of the NATO concept. Upset by this, the smaller countries found a way to assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
...sputniks and international competition in almost every conceivable field, research programs have multiplied almost by necessity. But the steady rise in grants from the Federal government has also brought fear of possible Federal control of education...
...Almost every scientist at the University enjoys some sort of financial support from outside agencies. For example, every professor and instructor in the Department of Chemistry save one receives government money for research, according to Ronald E. Vanelli '41, director of the Chemical Laboratories. This also holds in the Departments of Physics and Biology, where the amount of funds available for research has increased greatly...
...increase, the Department of Chemistry budgeted $80,000 for research in 1946-47. Seven years later, this figure jumped to $220.000, and in 1957-58 the total reached $514,000. The government provides 53.5 per cent of this total, foundations and industry another 30.7 per cent. University funds, once almost all the research budget, now account for only 15.8 per cent...