Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow the Party line in their teaching. The Communist Party in this country is not so perfectly organized that naive teachers cannot hold dormant membership without being read out. They are unfaithful Communists and politically stupid men. But only when their Communism affects their teaching should they exit. Communists can certainly teach math, physics, or languages so long as they can meet the AAU's other standards...
...Trujillo had discovered at U.N. that there was no ardent welcome for an envoy who also happened to be the unsavory dean of Western Hemisphere dictators; he needed an excuse for a graceful exit from stage center. Fellow Dictator Joseph Stalin died just in time to provide it. "The developments of the past few days within the Soviet Union," Trujillo announced importantly, forced him to quit the U.N. and head for home to serve as Foreign Minister (for his dummy-President, brother Hector). He left the impression that in the days of confusion and tumult sure to follow Stalin...
...Lowell, Mass., Rightweight Neil King, making his boxing debut, hopped nimbly into the ring, tossed off his robe, discovered he had forgotten his trunks made a faster exit than he had counted on. --TIME Magazine
Americans may picture refugees as stoic people with babushkas and cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...
...alternate to the ratio plan, the library officials propose that commuters use the public libraries. While this suggestion shows that the librarians recognize the problem, it is a back door exit from the dilemma. Not only are many of the course texts not available in a public library, but the tuition paid by the commuters entitles them to full use of the College libraries. The librarians have should solution to their problem in the ratio system. By adopting this plan, they can end the nightly nemesis of the 9 o'clock deadline...