Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Arms Control. "We must reject all schemes for 'total disarmament'-unsupported by specifics and safeguards-speed and coordinate all efforts to improve [nuclear] detection devices, steadfastly adhere to the principle of the need for inspection." The U.S. should end all detectable (aboveground) nuclear tests, but "we should resume underground testing, for its results can vitally affect both offensive and defensive capabilities as well as the cleanliness of such weapons . . . Simple disarmament can invite aggression, as Nazi and Communist aggression have brutally taught Western democracies...
Welfare State: As the son of a multi millionaire and a millionaire himself, Harvard-accented, dark-suited Jack Kennedy carries about an aura that makes him acceptable to many right-leaning Democrats and independents who instinctively reject any unmistakable liberal such as Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. But Kennedy's stands and voting records on most domestic issues are not widely different from Humphrey's. Kennedy's closest advisers on domestic policies, including Harvard Professors Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith, tend to be liberals of the Americans for Democratic Action camp...
...difficulty-and the reason doctors rarely try organ grafts on humans-is biochemical. One of nature's inexorable laws is that the mammalian body (like all animals' from amphibians up) will reject, attack and eventually destroy any invading material from another individualn.* In experiments with dogs, and in the few attempts on humans, this "rejection reaction" has invariably killed the graft. Only in the case of identical twins, who are in effect the same person biochemically, have grafts of skin or organs been completely successful. Since 1954 the Harvard-Brigham team has performed eleven successful kidney transplants between...
...grim group of Washington strategists tossed out the possibility that a crisis growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...
...pending in Congress, notably the billion-dollar housing bill (see below) and the bill to boost the pay of federal employees by 20%. He worked away at a tough-toned special message, to be sent to Capitol Hill this week, calling upon Congress to resist election-year spending temptations, reject budget-straining welfare bills, and enact his own less costly proposals instead...