Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make arrangement so that students would miss a minimum of important work, and still be free to benefit from the study abroad. Credit for courses should cause little trouble, since enough universities are included within the scope of the program to provide varying curriculums. From these the student could chose one that would make the transfer of grades as easy as possible. The question of cost is also answered easily, in spite of claims that the trip would be prohibitively high. The price tag, including transportation, is almost identical to the expense of remaining home...
...look. "Rather than let the Communists nibble us to death all over the world in little wars," the Government decided to rely "on our massive mobile retaliatory power, which we could use in our discretion against the major sources of aggression at times and places that we chose...
...this hemisphere. All past threats have been tea parties compared to this one." The Secretary then amended his resolution, spelling out that it was directed at "dangers originating outside this hemisphere." Most of the holdouts, notably Uruguay, swung to the U.S. side-although Mexico and Argentina in the end chose not to vote...
...Cohn. Tossing off these "alleged actions" in two sentences, Edwards later assured his readers, "The army report was unsigned, although Adams was known as its author. . . McCarthy said Adams had an 'interest' in making the report." Edwards neglected to say that the report also concerned McCarthy, and the Tribune chose not to publish the transcript. The record for Saturday was two sentences for the army, seven columns for McCarthy...
...said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came to join Bao Dai's army. But many more Vietnamese stayed away; they chose wait-and-seeism instead...