Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ahead of his personal timetable in the past-most notably when he became president of Bell & Howell at 29, ten years before he expected to. In speeches from New England to the West Coast, he has impressed audiences with his articulateness and quickness of mind. He has a reservoir of sympathy as a result of the still-unsolved murder of his daughter Valerie last September. In the Senate, Percy got off to a whirlwind start, persuading 27 colleagues to co-sponsor a bill calling for a Government-supported private corporation to help slum residents buy their own dwellings...
...reservoir of good will built up by the Harlem Globetrotters, Ralph Bunche, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong and millions of other solid American citizens of Negro ancestry is being drained by people like Adam Clayton Powell [March 10]. His only defense appears to be that other Congressmen are also guilty, which is no defense...
...disease fighters were hampered by the public's unconcern, they were helped by some characteristics of the measles virus. There is only one type, as against three for polio. One shot of vaccine made from live but attenuated virus confers lifelong immunity. And the wild virus has no reservoir, like that of rabies in animals or polio in sewage. It lives only in man. Wipe it out in man, and it is wiped out, period-except for sporadic outbreaks among unvaccinated children, caused by virus imported by a traveler...
...therefore a safe assumption that if the Congress purges its ranks and overhauls its organization, it may still regain much of the public affection it has lost. Indeed, there are two powerful factors that favor such a return to grace. First, the Congress had built up a huge reservoir of goodwill during the freedom struggle and a large bulk of Indians still feel a deep sentimental attachment towards it. They voted against Congress this time because their patience had been stretched to the limit, but they will eagerly vote for the Congress once again if they are convinced that...
Money raised by the Fund through annual gifts from classes as far back as that of 1891 is used to help the College meet current expenses and to provide a reservoir of unrestricted money for College projects such as the Freshman Seminar program, financial aid to undergraduates and Intramural sports...