Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened to Delany?" the young Aussie was asked when he caught his breath. "I didn't look back to see," said Elliott. The Delany himself supplied the answer. There were no excuses. It was not the cold wind that bothered him, he said with a smile. "It was lack of wind. I didn't have...
Begun on a shoestring in 1954, KQED was at first limited by lack of cash to a 30-minute program three nights a week. General Manager Jim Day, 39, credits the station's subsequent rise to the do-it-yourself teamwork of the original six-man staff. By 1955, with the helo of a $114,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, KQED was running regular lectures, panel discussions, art shows and live symphonic concerts, kept growing even after the Ford grant...
...capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled cell." O'Connor came to the brink of the same fate. "Through lack of a normal sex-life . . . and through drink, delusions set in . . ." A couple of years later, "I phoned a psychiatrist: 'Shall I,' I said, 'hold on, or come to you?' He said: 'Hold on'; which I did." Slowly, "I ... began to feel my way to health...
...realm of government, generally the members of the school boards are sincere men devoted to education. They want to see schools improve, but frequently they lack the professional competence to do so, possibly because they attended an inferior school thirty years before...
...commencement address at the United States Naval Academy last week, noted that fifty percent of the United States' diplomatic service has little or no ability in tongues other than English. Here is another result of America's deemphasis of the so-called "impractical" aspects of education; such an apparent lack of interest in foreign countries cannot help but give an unfavorable impression to the rest of the world. At a time when the United States needs friendly allies more than ever before, such an educational lacuna may assume considerable importance...