Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, doctrinaire socialism has lost converts as experiment shows up its defects; yet the socialist scar tissue continues to grow inside other doctrines which have not developed sufficiently vigorous answers to the 20th Century problem of want amid the possibility of plenty...
...more than a fortnight neither side gave an inch. The break came last week just as Hume Wrong, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., was getting ready to take the problem to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The U.S. State Department asked Wrong to delay his visit for one day, and submitted informally a surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered...
...toughest problems in modern high-speed flying is how to help the pilot bail out alive. A secondary problem is how to test new escape devices. Pilots are understandably reluctant to trust their lives to untried gadgets, and when a pilot does bail out of a single-place fighter, the airplane at least is sure to be lost...
...Enthusiastic. According to "Georges Escoulin" (a pen name said to conceal the identity of a well-known Catholic writer who has traveled in America), the chief difficulty of U.S. Roman Catholics is an inferiority complex. Because the church arrived late in the U.S., he says, the big problem for the immigrating Catholic was to get himself accepted. For this reason he has had to show, "and prove by his whole behavior, that. . . he is devoted to 'The American Way,' that he has adopted it, and will, in turn, get others to adopt it." He has had no easy...
...Joey." The problem this time was to keep Maxim from overtraining. With five solid weeks of training before his boat trip, Joey reached his peak three times before the fight and had to be told to rest. But when he returned to his drills in Jack Solomon's cramped, smoky...