Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what was surprising was not the cheers, but the lack of more of them. In India the Hindustan Times carefully emphasized that Russia was better able than the U.S. to take such a step because the Soviets had just completed an extensive series of tests. In Japan, despite a national obsession with the dangers of fallout, only 40 people bothered to appear when the left-wing Students' Federation (220,000 members) called for a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy. Even the Egyptian press received the Soviet announcement coolly. Said Cairo's Al Akhbar: "It would appear...
...myself-with fingers crossed." Puffing thoughtfully on his ever-present Marlboro, Gunther adds: "I have no deep, institutionalized religious beliefs. I believe in the fact." On looking inside Gunther-despite his deep faith in his prowess as a journalist-Gunther finds: "I'm terribly limited. I completely lack intensity of soul. I'm not original. I'm really only a competent observer who works terribly hard at doing a job well...
...Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, backed his co-lecturer of Natural Sciences 9, claiming that students' "lack of adequate training in mathematics was appalling" and that many "blush at the sight of a logarithm...
What had gone wrong with the rebel cause? It was not a lack of arms. Their Premier, Sjafruddin, boasted last week that there was ammunition enough for a ten years' war. Over the weekend, two more airdrops of arms occurred at Bukittinggi, parachuted down from planes of "unknown" nationality, reputedly Nationalist Chinese...
MANHATTAN'S ASTOR PLAZA, bogged down for lack of funds, will be rescued bv First National City Bank, third biggest in U.S. Bank will take over lease on Park Avenue site, between 53rd and 54th Streets, where Vincent Astor intended to erect $75 million slab skyscraper (TIME. Oct. 1, 1956). will put up a building...