Word: approached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then wrapping himself in a cloak of political doubletalk, Henry grandly brushed aside criticism of Soviet totalitarianism. "The Russians," he explained, "approach the democratic principle through an economic dictatorship." Said Sol Bloom: "Oh, stop kidding...
...Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The girls seemed delighted. "It was more fun than anything else," said Senior Lois Taylor. "In fact, we had an inkling they were coming...
...stuff so long, it's a habit they can't break." Old movies, which have become a TV mainstay, are also a TV headache. Made before the days of the Hays Office, such old films as The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik have a straightforward approach in their love scenes that shocks televiewers raised on tidied-up modern movies...
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...same time there is a considerable distance between propagandizing and the legitimate expression of considered views. It is perfectly possible, and in some institutions it is required, to present controversial questions in a neutral manner. However, the "on the one hand and on the other hand" approach seems to me to leave much to be desired when we come to as clear-cut a matter as probity in public life. The notion that every classroom should become a public forum is patently absurd. To the best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled in my course have done so voluntarily. That...