Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distrusts political eloquence, is an indifferent orator himself, although a good lawyerlike diplomat and bargainer. Although Brentano is one of the founders of the C.D.U. party in Hesse, he lacks the organized political following that some CDUers have, may never get to be Chancellor if the Christian Democrats fail to heal disunity in their ranks and check the growing appeal of the Social Democrats...
Said the University of Toronto's President Sidney Smith to his students: "If you choose to work, you will succeed; if you don't, you will fail. If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being...
...will thus be better integrated into the community rather than made to stand out as "different." But the foreign student soon gets into difficulty just because he is different. The usual advisorial system, which makes the student take the initiative in discussing problems with his advisor, is bound to fail. In a poll taken last year, several foreign graduate students claimed they knew nothing about an advisor. Others professed great difficulty in choosing their courses and getting oriented academically...
...next bill on its list. ¶The "police powers'" bill declares that the state must invoke its police powers to preserve the public peace. Integration is automatically a threat to the peace; ergo, any school permitting it must be withdrawn from the public-school system. Should the governor fail to persuade the offending school to change its mind, he can either: 1) let its state funds lapse, or 2) order it to reopen on a segregated basis...
Last week some Virginia legislators expressed private doubts as to whether the legal web they have spun will hold up for long. But if these bills fail, Virginia is quite ready to think up others. "Virginians," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "are deliberate, even slow, in coming to drastic measures to protect their rights under the federal constitution. But when they do, they are in for the duration...