Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the other questions, Russell avoided direct answers by saying that the question had not been stated succinctly enough...
...most graphic portrayal of Benson's unpopularity was the election of William Proxmire as Senator from Wisconsin and his subsequent dramatic demand for Benson's resignation. Discontent had been obvious earlier in the summer, when for the first time, Benson was criticized for extensive traveling. The height of direct criticism was reached when South Dakota farmers threw eggs at the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Before BBC's announcer had even finished reading the Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal for one moment of silence each day at 11 a.m. The League Against Cruel Sports roundly expressed "horror and contempt" for the behavior of Russian scientists...
Federal aid to education has been traditionally resisted by the states for two reasons--fear of Federal control and the problem of equitable administration. Direct Depression grants for building schools, however, show that aid need not mean control; and an independent commission for administering the money would minimize the possibility of making grants a political football. Objectivity would be further assured by the appointment of educators to study each institution before aid was granted...
...Those Bastards." Meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, the Air Force contingent was under direct orders to keep cool and dignified, to blow off only in private. "Those bastards," said one high Air Force officer in private, "can't win in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where they ought to take their case, so they went to the public. They're not going to get away with it. It isn't going to do them any good. It's going to be a real big brawl...