Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pamphlet, referring to last month's unarmed leaflet-dropping run to Havana from Florida by Castro's ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, went out in more than 100,000 English-and Spanish-language copies for worldwide distribution. "Inaccurate, malicious and misleading," answered an official U.S. note, "An offensive brochure." The Castro lies served the Communist purpose well. "When, at last, will the Yankees stop the bombings?" sighed Pravda...
...month job editing Aufbau, then a four-page monthly put out by New York's German Jewish Club (now the New World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed "search column," which helped refugees trace their families after World War II, has given way to a supplement devoted to aiding Jews...
Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided. There are too many, and their different dogmas and doctrines are too confusing for Africans. Christianity has failed in India and China because Christians have failed to live up to Christ's teaching, and in Africa it's proving an empty shell for the same reason. If Christians...
...English Department is planning to revive the Briggs-Copeland program for instruction in composition, Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, announced Thursday...
Because of difficulty in finding suitable instructors, the English Department discontinued the program...