Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks Braithwaite's students met him with indifference or open hostility. They learned little, muttered about the "bleeding cheek" of the "black bastard" when he corrected them. Couples necked openly in the halls, sullenly waited as he passed to begin again...
...proposal for a three and a half-year seminar program, to begin in the freshman year, was made last month by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology. Bruner recently called for active debate on his proposal, in order to "stir the pot." He also declared himself interested in any other proposals which might alleviate "the lack of intellectual excitement" in the present system...
...second thoughts about the economic impact of the people's communes: he made no mention of the once highly touted scheme to herd city dwellers as well as peasants into the communes. And he was clearly fearful that China's hard-pressed citizens in the cities might begin to ask why, if the countryside was producing such vast quantities of food, their rice bowls got no fuller. "It is also possible," warned Chou in what would have been heresy in a lesser official, "that output increases of certain industrial and agricultural products-particularly certain agricultural products...
...last, the adventurers in the jungle town of Cuchazu have struck it rich-diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. But they never cash in. The government steps in and takes over the diggings for the state. Troops arrive to make the decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest...
...fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much...