Word: cowing
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...district's mistrust of many veteran teachers is often unfair, if understandable. The menacing atmosphere of most slum schools is enough to cow even the most devoted teacher, who in any case is seldom equipped professionally to deal with the specialized problems of the deprived child-let alone the disturbed or disruptive student who is too often rejected as "uneducable...
...circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia and asserted its new-found critical attitude toward Mos cow. Wrote L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper: "No party is perfect and no party can avoid making mistakes in method and analysis...
...Ministers may not have the chance to resign. Informed in London of the Cabinet's truckling, a furious Hussein privately spoke of dismissing Talhouni and the Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware...
Return of the WASP. Though no writer has spoken more disparagingly of the small-hearted WASPs of small-town America, Mailer begins to seem almost sympathetic toward them. "They had been a damned minority for too long, a huge indigestible boulder in the voluminous, ruminating government gut of every cow-like Democratic Administration. Perhaps the WASP had to come to power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear...
That was the end of the first Mos cow demonstration by a small organization called War Resisters' International, founded in The Netherlands after World War I and now headquartered in London. W.R.I., which claims branches in 40 nations, supports nonviolence and works closely with the Quakers. A major point in its program is "to seek and maintain contact with war resisters in countries where it is dangerous to oppose government policy...