Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee emphasizes that local people, rather than civil rights workers, must make the decisions for the movement. But SNCC is distrustful of the established Negro leadership--the ministers, school principals and professionals--and when SNCC moves into a new area, it seeks to discover and develop grass-roots leaders who will challenge the conservatives. Fannie Lou Hamer, for example, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, used to be a sharecropper...
Although the year abroad will be integrated with specialized study when the student returns, the purpose of the program is not primarily academic. It is designed, as President Kingman Brewster said on April 7, "to develop an intimate awareness of the extent to which values, expectations, standards of living and ways of life can be totally different from what the American student has inherited and experienced." Its major goal is "development of character and motivation"-a sense of perspective. And it guarantees official deferment-draft exempt status-to the student who interrupts the staid and established sequence of academics with...
...keep their German shepherds mean, hungry and on the alert for escapees, East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...
...Canada, such growth presents some tough problems. "We are having to expand before we have had a chance to develop our own true excellence-our Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard," notes Canadian Social Scientist Bernard Ostry. Despite good salaries (the median full professor's pay is $14,163), there are many staff vacancies. Three Canadian college presidents recently toured five U.S. campuses trying to lure graduate students from Canada back home to teach...
...baby's sucking action stimulates the release of the hormone, oxytocin, from her pituitary gland, which causes the womb to contract and hastens recovery from childbirth. Even more important, women who have nursed are less likely to develop breast cancer. Yet for all these advantages, only two out of every five U.S. mothers give their babies the opportunity to breast feed...