Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Judy relaxed. Her defense rested on this story: her pocketbook happened to be crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev...
...late years The Old Man learned that collaboration with the Communists was impossible. With U.S. support and prodding, as head of a Liberal-Right wing coalition, he pursued the civil war as best he could. He was generally regarded as Greece's wisest statesman (which was not saying very much) ; he was certainly more honest and better liked by his people than most other Greek leaders...
...anxious teen-agers pored over newspapers, scanning the long columns of numbers that reported the result of the rigid entrance examinations for the Dominion's colleges & universities. It was a week of rejoicing for those who had passed. They became family heroes, with bright futures as teachers or civil servants. Some were showered with gifts of books and furniture from local shops and factories. But of the thousands who took the tests, only half escaped the blight of failure...
...permit no hysterical witch hunt. We shall not impose an oath of loyalty upon our faculty." Yale, he said, had abandoned trying to "enforce conformity by oath over 125 years ago." Despite this "lack of control," added Seymour, "we have done pretty well in service to 'church and civil state...
...Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...