Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the unique distinction of being the first Prime Minister of Japan to have lived, worked and studied in the U.S. and to have gained firsthand an indelible experience of the many meanings of American democracy...
...specific case in his conversation with Augustine, nor was there any evidence to back up what he had said. According to Ulmer, the outspoken Ringgold then told him the authorities were looking in the wrong place for culprits. Asked Ulmer: "Are you telling me that you have firsthand knowledge of cadets who have violated the honor code apart from what we know?" "Yes, sir," said Ringgold. Ulmer promptly advised him that he would have to go before an honor code review board once again. Ulmer later explained that he was "morally obligated" to turn Ringgold in after the cadet...
...past 23 years 550 business, political and educational leaders from 86 foreign countries have studied American life and thought firsthand, for up to five months, under the privately financed Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship program. Of the 280 who responded to a recent survey, more than half rejected the U.S. system of constitutional democracy as a model for their countries. Nearly two-thirds said the U.S. social-welfare system is inadequate. Fully 85% thought Americans were unsympathetic to foreign revolutionary governments. More than half scorned U.S. trade policy and foreign investment as being motivated chiefly by self-interest. A slight majority rated...
...fact that with the exception of John Kennedy, every President of this century since Taft was born or reared in a small community. Which leads one to wonder why, in our age of ultimate urbanization, we end up with men who never had firsthand experience living right down in the crowded center of Megalopolis...
...with the racist South African regime bears special looking into. Black organizations like the now clearly marxist African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) have begun to take a more prodding look at the facts beyond what is presented in the press. ALSC has sent representatives to Angola to bring back firsthand accounts to the black community of what is really going on. Their reports are at total variance with the sophisticated information networks of the American liberal and pro-Soviet support groups in America, who have not only glorified MPLA but also go to great lengths to discredit UNITA. ALSC...