Word: biases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...
This kind of article cannot be said to be typical of the Soviet press treatment of the exchange program to date. At least some of the accounts which I have seen in Soviet publications have been quite devoid of the bias shown in this...
...Adenauer has limited his party to Protestant choices for Chancellor; he is now better able to control his succession than if he should have to resign as Chancellor when old age inevitably overtakes him. A Protestant Chancellor may also remove what some Germans have regarded as an unhealthy Catholic bias in the party...
...directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds...
...Bias: "Last week we printed the honor roll for the colored school. A couple of characters gave birth to a two-headed calf, sideways, when they read it. Our opinion is that colored students, with three strikes against them on books, equipment and the facilities for study, are to be commended above a lot of white children we know who can't make an honor roll with the best of instruction and educational facilities. We think effort should be recognized. We think news should be printed. If these two convictions of ours soil the lily-white hands and Christian...