Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardona is what Costa Ricans call a "finger soldier" -i.e., a soldier who has received his rank through favoritism ("Somebody points a finger at you and says: 'You're a corporal; you're a captain; you're a colonel.'"). In last year's civil war, Cardona was a colonel. Afterwards, Junta President Jose Figueres kept him on as Security Minister, even though he took to hobnobbing around San Jose with the President's conservative enemies...
Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain, observing the tenth anniversary of his Civil War, had words of modest reassurance for his followers: "You must stick closely together, confident that he who led you so many times to victory is wholly conscious of his duty and will never desert his post of honor...
...soon became what Rogers' stern successor, Francis A. Walker, had stamped it, "a place for men to work, not for boys to play." M.I.T. experimented with a football team for a while, gave it up 45 years ago. In the years after the Civil War, when the U.S. needed engineers and mechanics more than ever before, M.I.T. had no time for the cultural preoccupations of the liberal-arts colleges. While neighbor Harvard was enjoying the Golden Age of William James and Santayana, M.I.T. was off on a tangent of its own. It was the first U.S. college to have...
...beleaguered Administration leaders, 62-year-old Dr. Graham would provide a dependable, much-needed vote right where it counted most. He had helped write the Administration's basic civil rights program. He had gone down the line for everything else in Harry Truman's Fair Deal. For a good 20 years he had been the outspoken sparkplug of scores of liberal and left-wing groups...
...Connell, the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, which provides for mail payments to the airlines mainly on the basis of whatever they need in order to keep operating, robs them of proper incentives. It offers little inducement to economically run routes and operations. It "tends to operate as a shield between the air carriers, and the ultimate in economic penalties-bankruptcy...