Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician and primate, than for the London agreement (,'TIME. March 2) that will within the year turn the island from a British crown colony into an independent republic. In their whitewashed coffee shops Greek Cypriots frowned at Article 22 of the agreement, which forbids them ever again to demand enosis (union with Greece). "We shall have to hear about it from the mouth of Makarios," said one coffee drinker. "From him we shall learn if it is good...
...tragedy" that the Characters demand be made out of their gnarled interrelationships would not be a good one, because tragedy is something more than an orchestration of the steady drip, drip of human misery. Even Pirandello, while giving their story more attention than it deserves, is more interested in their status as Characters and in their relation to the troupe of Actors upon whom they descend...
...other action last night, the Council agreed, on the basis of an informal poll of the College, that the demand for typing exams was not sufficient to warrant a long-range report on the issue...
Council members estimated that over 275 undergraduates had been polled during the week and the "demand for typewriting in exams is not commensurate with the problems the change would cause...
Despite the rising demand, the consumer price index inched up only one-tenth of 1% in January, to 123.8% of the 1947-49 average, still below the peaks of last July and November. The price index has ridden on a plateau for the past nine months, the longest period of price stability since the U.S. started to compile monthly figures...