Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic schools has passionately dogged every French government since, including De Gaulle's Fifth Republic. Last week, when the government finally sent to the National Assembly a draft bill offering conditional...
...Here is no entrance except for friends," wrote one historian of the forbidding little (1.6 sq. mi.) island of Lundy. Rising like a granite fang out of the churning waters off the coast of Devon, the "isle of Puffins" has survived assault by the Spaniard, the Turk, the Frenchman and the Dutchman. But in all the 800 years since the King of England gave it over to one of his favorite barons, it has bowed to no nation for long-not even to its great neighbor, Britain...
Chou's answer amounts to a total rejection of all of Nehru's proposals, except the one about not sending out border patrols. Though headlines played up Chou's willingness to negotiate, the fine print showed that he was in no real bargaining mood...
...singers. The work was typical, too, in its close welding of music to text (by 18th century German Poet Friedrich Hölderlin). The oddly assorted orchestra-which included four pianos for eight players, four harps, a glass harmonica, marimbaphone, xylophones, bongos, congas, gongs and no strings except for nine double basses-served less to score Sophocles' tragedy than to underscore it. Every word of dialogue took precedence over the music...
...initiative. On Sunset Boulevard, hard by Los Angeles' "hospital row," it is the nation's (perhaps the world's) first hospital built exclusively for dentistry. And it was as empty as a freshly prepared dental cavity. Hay's planning had foreseen everything-except how to get patients in. Dental cowardice is a common ailment...