Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...powerful American Medical Association makes passing the test the qualification for internships and residencies in accredited U.S. hospitals-therefore foreign doctors lose their jobs upon failing the test. They lose their right to stay in the U.S. because the State Department makes holding such a hospital job the qualification for keeping a visa...
...game tonight is expected to be a tough test for the youthful squad. Last year the Crimson eked out a five point win at home against a Bowdoin team composed mostly of sophomores...
...California, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield slipped into the cockpit of the experimental space plane X-15, dropped free from the wing of a high-flying B-52, gunned to 80,000 ft. at speeds nearing 2,000 m.p.h. It was the first test of the X-15's new 57,000-lb.-thrust engine, the most powerful airplane rocket engine that the U.S. has built to date (earlier X-15 engines developed 16,000 Ibs. thrust). Said Crossfield, who flew only at half throttle: Acceleration with the new engine was so abrupt that it was "almost like an explosion...
...opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts. The nose puncher swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years-ago Communist flirtation is set against his chief assailant's years-ago sexual misstep, the one man would kill anyone to win, the other man kills himself. The play's more personal scenes-they are fortunately few-are by all odds its weakest...
Attractive Reticence. In his preface, O'Hara mentions the weight factor in bookselling and hopes that readers will not apply the heft test to his small volumes. He need have no fears; done up in a slipcase, the novellas are not only handsome but hefty, and the publisher is able to ask as much for about 60,000 words of text as he does for 260,000. Regrettably, O'Hara also reports that he is working on his heftiest novel yet (previous record: 897 pages in From the Terrace), apparently ignoring the fact that his jumbo works...