Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as most 19th Century historians said it was, France's problem would not have arisen. The truth was that the Revolution was made against one of the most successful social structures the world ever saw, still near the height of its vigor at the moment it was attacked. Only the most powerful revolutionary drive could have breached that structure, only the massive vigor of the pre-Revolutionary French...
...SERIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING HAS ARISEN OUT OF MY RECENT REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN HONG KONG [TIME, FEB. 12]. BECAUSE A MENTION OF THE HIGHLY RESPECTED FIRM OF LO & LO, SOLICITORS, DIRECTLY FOLLOWED A SENTENCE DEALING WITH PASSPORT SELLING, MESSRS. LO & LO AND PERHAPS SOME OTHERS OUT HERE FEEL THAT I MEANT TO STATE THAT LO & LO WERE ENGAGED IN THAT NEFARIOUS BUSINESS. SUCH IS NOT THE CASE, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR MAKING SUCH AN INTERPRETATION POSSIBLE. EACH SENTENCE IN THE PARAGRAPH REFERRED TO WAS INTENDED AS A SEPARATE VIGNETTE, AND THE REFERENCE TO LO & LO WAS MERELY TO ILLUSTRATE THAT THEY...
...believed by some that violent Communism has arisen out of poverty. I know, however, that the main supporters of Communism in this country have a large percentage of young gentlemen whose parents have substantial properties. There is in human nature an element that is drawn by the spirit of adventure, the lure of sacrifice and the attraction of secrecy. [The Communists] have replaced the fervor of old-fashioned religion with the fervor of their new creed...
Ross knows what he'll lose if he starts swinging. He would have to hire a Radcliffe stringer not accredited by the Press Board. "The situation has never arisen," says Miss Projansky. "That would have to be dealt with by the college. The girl wouldn't have our inside news sources. We probably wouldn't give her any releases...
Immediate opposition to the plan has arisen from students who have interpreted the directive as an attempt to set up a form of student council. Councils, with the purpose of advising the administration on undergraduate opinion and needs, have been repeatedly scorned and voted out of existence by the student body in the past...