Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sohn's proposals was that each side equally divide its armaments into several sharply defined geographical regions. Then about every six months each nation would demand that one of the other nation's regions be disarmed with inspection...
...alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...terms in which his argument is couched are even more startling than his conclusion: we are to "demand ... respect, not love" and "begin acting like a world power" and "quit groveling on our knees to inferior people who like to come to New York." One can only envision a medieval pope or perhaps a divine-right monarch employing such concepts. Most intriguing of all is that word "inferior"--which will of course sound marvelous when Reuters picks it up and reports it in Europe...
...NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad last week outlined a proposal he has been urging for over a year: the creation of a nuclear weapons stockpile to be placed under NATO control and left there so long as the alliance endures. Such a step would presumably stave off any German demand for independent nuclear strength, would also quiet the longstanding fear of NATO's European members that in the event of a Soviet attack on Europe the U.S. might hesitate to use its deterrent in the hope of avoiding Russian retaliation against...
Among TIME'S "unknowns," or insufficiently known, nearly all have fewer than 1,500 students. Almost all require the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test; many also demand the Achievement Tests and sometimes the new "Writing Sample." Few have application deadlines, though all advise early applications. Most were church-founded, and though direct church control is rare nowadays, many still require chapel and religion courses. Liberal education is the primary task at hand, not religious indoctrination. About half the professors in each hold doctorates-well above the national average. Big universities, when raiding small campuses for staff, tend to steal...