Word: asks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year the students were put on probation after a bit of restlessness in the streets. Just two weeks ago, President A. Whitney Griswold returned to the classroom to teach a class and muffed the word "epistemology" (misdefined it, not misspelled it). Yale's friends all over cannot but ask themselves, "Is the old school slipping...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...statement, stripped of its emotionalism, was, in fact, riddled not only with pomposity, self-pity and self-dramatization, but also with phony arguments. Item: Van Doren said that he repeatedly wanted to get off the show, but that Producer Albert Freedman would not free him. No Congressman bothered to ask why Van Doren did not retire, or, if he wanted to be more polite about it, did not intentionally muff a question to get out of the isolation booth. Item: Van Doren testified that he was making a clean breast of the whole sordid story for the benefit...
...Freedom. "There is a spectrum in 'freedom' and 'open' doors-they are not absolutes," says Dr. Hunt. "Doors are open, and some patients can come and go freely, but some are so disturbed that an attendant will ask them to wait for a little talk. The important thing is that they are asked to stay in, not physically restrained. Patients on shock treatment are asked to stay in on treatment days, for their own safety. They understand. In all, 80%-or more than 4,000 patients-have full freedom of the grounds, unsupervised, some part...
Walking through the streets of Paris last week, a shopper in search of one of the city's fast-blooming supermarkets stopped at a small butchershop to ask directions. "You mean the plague?" growled the butcher. "It's around the corner." The butcher had reason to growl. Since the first U.S.-style self-service markets opened in Europe a few years ago, "la méthode américaine" has sparked a revolution in food retailing. The familiar cubbyhole specialty store, with its high prices and limited stock, is on the way out. Rising to replace...