Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This panic has resulted in what educators call "the new philosophy of education," which is summarized in the seemingly sound hypothesis that "we are teaching students, not subjects...
...first Americans to see it, the Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware...
...Navy does not take kindly to pampered princelings. Tough instructors at Dartmouth went out of their way to prove the validity of Captain Bligh's legendary dictum that "a midshipman is the lowest form of life in the British Navy." But Phil the Greek (as he was sometimes called) weathered every storm. In two terms he received only one day's punishment, and might well have avoided a second rude admonition had it not been for a young lady who came to call...
...Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call, he hit the deck with a resounding whack as a touchy petty officer slashed the cords on his hammock...
Makarios defended the Cypriot EOKA movement, asking "How can you call the Hungarian patriots 'freedom fighters' and the Cypriot patriots 'terrorists...