Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States needs the services of students who have special abilities. Yet under the present law, a foreign scholar, even a nuclear physicist, may be denied permission to stay here because of the irrelevancy that he was born in a low quota country. Regardless of his high aptitude, he 'chose' the wrong antecedents...
...floor: Would the U.S. Globemasters "transgress" Indian territory? Prime Minister Nehru's reply: "It has been the policy of the government for the past six years not to allow foreign troops to pass through or fly over India." There was indeed such an Indian policy, but Nehru chose to restate it in a desperate hour when his remarks would give sharp offense to the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Parliament got the point; M.P.s cheered him wildly, and newspapers headlined NEHRU'S AIR BAN round the world...
...publisher of the Bulletin, Hamlen says he is constantly afraid that some big national magazine will lure away his editor. All of the past several editors could have gotten a job with virtually any magazine they chose, the publisher explains, and he extends this statement to the Bulletin's new editor, Norman Hall. And indeed Hall has already shown that he will maintain, if not improve, the Bulletin's "high level of editorial achievement...
...civilization, they developed an emotional commitment to a political system that called itself scientific. In Germany, as it happened, thousands of the best-educated men, contemptuous of politics in the early 1920s, committed themselves to fascism. The process was the same. What mattered was not which bad side they chose, but that the self-made Goths were so politically ignorant and so powerful inside the gates of civilization...
While the correct answer was item four it was found that 43 percent answered number one as against 28 percent who chose four. The obvious ambiguity was eliminated so that the question read...