Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders will follow the usual lines of political warfare and select their facts to suit their audiences. It is conceivable that Mr. Khrushchev did not realize that the British have for at least two generations ceased to be crass enough to call the Burmese "barbarians." But that does not alter the fact that the Russians undoubtedly won an immense response from multitudes of people in South-East Asia to whom colonialism still remains, by the fault of the West, the real enemy...
Between his shuttling and his studying, Guerard found time to do what he enjoyed most: write fiction. He won a national fiction contest at 15, and began his first novel, The Past Must Alter, when he was a 20-year-old Harvard graduate student. As usual, he drove himself as relentlessly as possible: "I was trying to catch up on Latin, get an M.A., and write my first novel, all at the same time. And those were the days when the graduate students didn't talk to each other; it was a real battle...
...topic was: Resolved, That the alumni should possess power to alter any major policy of a privately endowed college or university...
...Harvard negative team successfully defended their premise that if alumni were permitted to possess power to alter policies, the administration of a university would be seriously affected...
...schools, which meet Monday in the initial television debate for both teams, will appear on WGBH-TV at 8 p.m. The topic is: "Resolved, That the alumni should possess the power to alter any major policy of a privately endowed college or university...