Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino Arganza, 16: "Everybody for Fidel...
Methodist Clergyman Johnson put it even more concretely: "I am contending that taxpaying parents who for conscience' sake, and in accord with the dictates of their religion, incur burdensome expenses by sending their children to religious schools, suffer a burdensome disadvantage which should disturb the conscience of the community . . . When Protestants-and other non-Catholics-are ready to view the school problem with sympathy for the economic predicament of a Catholic family of slender means, Protestant concern for religious freedom will be more convincing. On the other hand, there is widespread fear on the part of non-Catholics that...
...coverage which the yearbook gives to the community is generally thorough and competent. In this sense, 323 fulfills part of its editorial standard of being "a lasting, accurate record of what happened at Harvard in a given span." Of course, there are a few inaccuracies: the CRIMSON does accord its Radcliffe members full privileges within a merged organization; Dr. Henry A. Kissinger is scarcely a "strong supporter of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy." Moreover, it is unfortunate that the copy deadline is so early, for the editors might now wish to revise their some-what pessimistic comments on the vigor...
Although your editorial entitled H.S.A. was in fact a criticism of the Student Council report with which I do not wish to take issue, many of their statements are taken by you as being true and in accord with your view I think it only fair to point...
...source of embarrassment for the U.S. in its relations with the new, democratically elected Venezuelan government, which accuses him of looting and terrorizing the country. The State Department said that it had "conferred" with the Immigration Service on the expulsion order and agreed that it "is in accord with the best interests of the U.S." Perez Jimenez' Miami lawyer predicted that he could keep his client in the U.S. "for at least two or three years" before all legal devices are exhausted...