Word: equips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...establishment of the first U.S. chapter of the secular order Opus Dei (TIME, March 18, 1957) also the launching of the Christian Family Movement and the first vigorous church action to help Puerto Ricans in the U.S His organizing ability and scholar's mine (plus excellent Italian) equip him wel as the first American ever admitted to the Italian-dominated Curia-powerhous of the Vatican...
...unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed to equip the student to take his place as a member of the human race, not just his local community, then education of the individual fails miserably . . . The atmosphere of anti-intellectualism will soon stifle our best young minds. Without a doubt progressive education has failed the American public...
...Alternatives. Ever since Tunisia won its independence from France in 1956, President Bourguiba has been trying to get the French to equip his fledgling army. His 6,000 men had only 3,000 rifles and less than three rounds of ammunition per man. Successive French governments, arguing that Bourguiba was giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, stalled the Tunisians off. Last September, after French forces in Algeria invoked "the right of hot pursuit" and began to follow fleeing Algerian rebels into Tunisian territory, Bourguiba publicly appealed to the U.S. for arms...
...before Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
...leaders of the mystic Taoist faith in Hunan Province have been condemned to death, according to the Peking press, for "preparing paper-made robes, swords, warships, banners, bows and arrows in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the other world and attack the Communist Party." In the Taoist view, objects can be translated to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. Thus the paper ornaments could indeed be stockpiled for a counterrevolution of spirits...