Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jarvis pooh-poohed the suggestion, conveniently ruled that it was just a matter of obeying the law against selling books in a classroom. Should Teacher Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense, then I have offended. I refuse to accept blame for anything else...
...turn, Americans are outgrowing the compulsion to lecture Indians endlessly and to demand profuse gratitude for favors given. Wrote an Indian editor: "Americans have conducted themselves with an unusual dignity over India's breach with China. They have successfully resisted the temptation of crowing-at least in public-over the fulfillment of their earlier warnings that we were playing with fire in wooing the Chinese. What Americans had not been able to achieve by the expenditure of millions of dollars -seen and unseen-has been accomplished for them at one stroke by Chinese folly...
...ghost-particularly among haunted show-business autobiographers-Dancer Katherine Dunham's decision to do her own writing is something of a breach of convention. Even more remarkably, she writes with skill and taste, and has made her personal history reflective rather than regurgitative...
After three weeks of unexpected delay, the Arnold arboretum's $1 million breach of trust suit against the Corporation has been presented to the State Supreme Court for immediate decision...
...field today is the near riot at Yale in 1953. En route to Columbia the Band stopped off to entertain at Harkness Commons at 2:30 a.m. As students booed and threw various objects and foodstuffs, New Haven police arrested the whole Band for parading without a license and breach of peace. Also arrested was an off-duty policeman who enjoyed the music enough to step up and direct the Band in "Yo Ho!--the Good Ship Harvard." Bail was posted and the group was once again on its way to New York City. Of course the material trademark...