Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...female emancipation that the French Resident General ordered her to stop. When at last in 1953 El Glaoui had his way and the French packed Ben Youssef into exile with two wives and a few favorite concubines, the aroused women of Morocco were the first to unite in demand for his return. Many were killed in street fighting. Others did their strike duty at home, refusing to have children during the Sultan's absence...
Recently, Pat McGinnis has shown a new and surprising reluctance to comment in public. He stubbornly refused the demand of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities that he appear at its hearings, sent along a posse of glib lieutenants instead. While the Boston hearings were in progress. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing publicly offered up a prayer to "have our railroads run regularly on time and comfortably...
...Worker always liked to accommodate its friends. Once a woman representing a Communist front came in to demand a front-page story on a money-raising women's bazaar-and with a banner headline, too. In his simple bourgeois way, Managing Editor Glaser scoffed: "You can't have an eight-column line on a bazaar." But, after Eisler intervened, that was just how the story...
...many parents are showing little initiative about having their children inoculated, despite doctors' pleas that now is the best time to do it. In Colorado, where 300,000 children still need shots, only about 35% of the free vaccine allotted to private physicians has been reported used. Demand is well below expectations in Georgia, where 700,000 children have yet to get their first shots. Parents have failed to take advantage of available vaccine in North Carolina to such an extent that the state may have to launch a campaign to move its vaccine. (Vaccine tends to lose...
...returned to students, they will have to take more time with their corrections, adding longer and more careful comments to the student's work. This necessity will undoubtedly increase the burden of the already underpaid and overworked junior Faculty member. Such conscientious grading, however, does not seem an unfair demand, at a College that purportedly concentrates less on what goes into a student's academic record, than on what goes into his head...