Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campesino, the peasant general who fought for the Republicans in the Spanish civil war (one of the few people ever to have escaped from a Soviet prison camp), has described the storms which sweep over the Vorkuta during the winter: "The watch dogs of our guards sensed the approach of a snowstorm before we did; they began to howl and whine, and this would be the signal to start cutting holes into the frozen ground where there was no other shelter. One day a shift of 150 prisoners on its way back to camp was caught in a sudden storm...
...unheard-of blessing of two top quality divers on the same freshman swimming team unfortunately shouldn't make Coach Bill Brooks' tenth year here approach the success of his ninth. Diving is the only event promising to surpass what Brooks calls the "phenomenal" 8-1 record of last year's team. The freshmen have six or seven consistent winners, but the lack of depth that was concealed in the easy Brookline and St. George victories will probably be obvious against subsequent opponents starting at Exeter...
...Burnett Magruder, radio and TV coordinator for the Louisville Council of Churches, told the Louisville Ministerial Association that they are too casual about broadcasting and telecasting. "The Protestant clergy is in danger of taking a colorless, common-denominator approach. Ministers do not evaluate [broadcast] time as highly as they should. The modern minister is skillful in the art of almost saying something...
...harsh motto-"Cut and get out"-as they marched across U.S. forests leaving them stumped and stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of becoming timber-poor, and the lumber industry was under heavy fire from conservationists. Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before. The project: tree farming, under which U.S. forests are as carefully planted, managed and harvested as lettuce and tomatoes. When loggers fell a tree, they make sure a new one grows in its place...
...Council's credits, nevertheless, far outweigh these few debits. Its sense of responsibility, inner harmony, and reasoned approach to problems should be constant guideposts for the incoming Council...