Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side, is now willing to begin a world war which would jeopardize the empire he has created in 30 bloody years. In the satellite countries, the Kremlin is currently troubled not only by sullen populaces, but by unsatisfactory puppets. Finally, except for routine sea-air maneuvers in the Eastern Baltic and some spring exercises in East Germany, there have been no reports of major Soviet military moves...
...program promises to tear the social and economic fabric of the country as surely as did Mexico's revolutionary land reforms. Even before the bill was passed passions blazed in capital and countryside. Near the eastern frontier, rabble-rousing organizers of the National Peasants Union announced lists of landholders marked for expropriation, and began measuring off parcels. Infuriated small farmers, swinging machetes, seized police headquarters in the village of San José Arada, wounding two cops. In Camotán, another band hacked a union leader to death and wounded five of his backers...
...pitching days. That was in 1944. He spent the next two seasons in the Army. Back in the Quaker City League in 1947, he improved his pitching (14-0), his batting (up to .497), and kept busy on weekends by pitching another team, Souderton, to the Eastern Penn League championship with eight more victories...
...body with the widest possible range of skills, tastes, and backgrounds. Geographical location is an important factor, and the Committee on Admissions, while weighing grades highest, will then start the selection process in the west and work east. The danger here is that many a fine student from an eastern school may be by-passed for the student from a more distant locale...
...complicate the picture. Excellent state universities like Michigan and California, and private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin, grew in academic stature and began to appeal to students all over the country. Harvard, armed with with a reputation and a National Scholarship program, was able to ignore the competition until Eastern schools like Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth began to expand westward...