Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dander up, Moss also fired off a five-page report on the sergeants' case to Air Force headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, and in Washington, requesting an investigation "of the highest order." i.e., by Congress. Noted the report flatly: "It is against American law, both military and civilian, to obtain confessions by force, brutality or torture . . ." Then, driving to the heart of the matter, Moss wrote that before the sergeants' arrest, the morale of U.S. forces in Izmir was high, but now "service men here [feel] that they are being let down by their own civilian national representatives...
Instead of the familiar doctor-patient relationship, Street Corner Research uses an experimenter-subject relationship that "gets information we couldn't possibly obtain by conventional methods." Adolescent subjects are paid for coming in and speaking with members of the experiment; there is no coercion or direct attempt to reform them...
...obtain capable readers selection is made carefully from a large number of applicants and the readers are given a refresher course including a review of English fundamentals and practice in marking a variety of themes. During the school year readers have about 250 hours of work, 170 of which are spent in reading papers and 80 in conferences with students...
Trouble with this maneuver was that even in the industrial towns party members have become increasingly apathetic. Of the 20,000 Polish Communists whose party records include an official reprimand, only 5,000 have bothered to obtain the vindication that the party has offered them. In the largest factory in Lodz, no new candidate for party membership has been recruited for two years. And in the town of Ziebice, only 30 of 300 party members showed up at a meeting to choose a new party secretary-and none would take...
...during his five years in office. The red light district retreated before his reforms, and Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride kept him from remaining in office longer than five years. In the election of 1828 he failed to obtain an absolute majority on either of the first two ballots, and withdrew in a huff from the race...