Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zulus died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...
...East, after V-J day stayed on to organize CAT airline with General Claire Chennault. Squeezed out of control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving to keep himself in trim. In the blue depths off Honduras' Caribbean coast, he hunted unsuccessfully for sunken pirate ships, learned to spear groupers, rockfish and tarpon...
...that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms...
...Leavell, "senior author" of the Modern McGuffey Readers, realized that today's schoolboy is too sophisticated to sit still for such out-of-date preaching. The Golden Rule Series only suggests the principle in its stories, lets the teacher bring out the point in discussions. The stories are built around eleven moral themes selected by Leavell and American Book: cooperation, courage, fairness, friendliness, honesty, kindness, patriotism, perseverance, responsibility, reverence and unselfishness...
...students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about their intellectual superiority. Cracks one Ohio Wesleyan vice president: "Oberlin gets the valedictorians. I'll settle for the next two or three in the class...