Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With the further achievement of a work able platform, the Nixon command was beyond question, and like good soldiers falling to. Nelson Rockefeller and then Barry Goldwater stepped into place behind him. The platform itself, polished and ready in time for Chuck Percy's delivery (with film clips) before the convention, was one that Dick Nixon-as well as the others-could support with ease; it sparkled with all the high-minded goals of the Democrats' platform, yet when in doubt saluted the merits of enter prise and fiscal conservatism...
...that a purely European force can never amount to anything without U.S. support, wants no suggestion that any new European community would in any sense challenge or set itself at odds with the U.S. In Adenauer's eyes, the support of the U.S. is more important than any question of European prestige...
...traditional and somewhat theatrical custom of clergymen opening or closing a political convention was carried on at Los. Angeles and Chicago, among others by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop Hillinger, and Rabbi Hillel Silver. The familiar scene inevitably raises a question: Should different denominations of Christians pray together-or alongside members of other faiths-and if so, under what circumstances...
...best, schools now evaluate themselves on the basis of national norms: the entire student body's average on standardized achievement tests is compared with the U.S. average. Peabody's IBM probes deeper. Within two weeks, each student's answer to each question is compiled and analyzed. Result: a kind of cardiogram of teaching within every subject. For example, if a question involving multiplication with zeros is widely flunked, arithmetic teachers have a specific hole to plug...
...brief question and answer period, he doubted the farsightedness of the current American disarmament position. "To want effective inspection systems," Morgenthau said, "is to desire a utopia or not to want disarmament...