Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government thereupon set off in confused pursuit of a program. The only clear lines were do-good fervor at home and opposition to dictators abroad. The Communists were freed to operate openly for the first time since 1953; the Communist paper Hoy appeared immediately. Though only 12,000 strong in a population of 6,500,000, the Communists infiltrated some rebel columns during the fighting, rushed into the convenient vacuum in organized labor and grabbed five out of 18 seats on the executive board of the hastily formed rebel labor federation...
...Seventh-day Adventists, with a membership of only 291,567 in the U.S., have the most missionaries of all-2,000 men and women, including missionaries from the U.S. and other home bases, in 184 countries. And the Christian and Missionary Alliance (membership: 87,663) has 822 missionaries abroad, or twice the number supported by the Protestant Episcopal Church (membership...
...university's overseas base, twelve miles from Stuttgart, is a rarity-other American colleges and universities let their undergraduates study abroad, but -few have foreign campuses-and Stanford is well pleased with the project. Because classes in such subjects as political science, art history and philosophy are conducted by Stanford professors in English, admission to Landgut Burg is not restricted to language majors and the few other students able to speak German-usually a limitation of the year-abroad programs run by other U.S. institutions...
Wandering Scholars. At school, students miss no meals, although they may eat plain Bratwurst or Spätzle. Plainness in food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind...
...hockey fans, the visiting players from abroad seemed a breed apart. They seldom body-checked, showed no signs of pique when an American opponent lowered a shoulder and sent them sprawling. They tried few power plays, relied instead on dazzling skating and passing so precise that their offense looked like a giant-sized game of animated chess. Instead of whooping with triumph after a goal, they skated deadpan back up ice. But the touring Russian all-stars had one familiar sporting trait: they played...