Word: demands
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Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...
...course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring: "The Franco-Musulman community has ceased to exist." French reinforcements poured into the ports, the first contingents of two new divisions ordered there from Germany. At week's end Lacoste hurried back to Paris to demand another 100,000 troops...
Three educators last night stressed the high demand for teachers and administrators in educational institutions of all kinds at the last in a series of conferences...
...agraha, meaning firmness. The former implies love, Gandhi wrote, and the latter, force; in other words, Satyagraha is "the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence." "Satyagraha," Gandhi explained, "postulates the conquest of the adversary by suffering in one's own person," and it demands that every civil resister disobey a law that is counter to his own conscience and cheerfully to demand the punishment for breaking the law. This weapon, which was to shake the British Empire, relied not on the love of force, which had characterized so many previous revolutions, but on the force...
Fogg's other services for the undergraduate encompass such scope, and the museum is so understaffed, that "what is carried out varies tremendously with the demand and the need." What Coolidge has to do in most cases is leave the initiative up to the undergraduate himself, with a resulting shift in emphasis from year to year...