Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Kennedy's presidential aspirations are realized, what guarantee will the American people have that he will not follow the lead of his church in waging war against our tradition of religious freedom through church-state separation...
Britain will generally follow the U.S. lead, but will place more emphasis on the need for member nations to subordinate their individual foreign policies to NATO interests. The British will also press cautiously for steps toward a program of complete military interdependence under which member nations would cease trying to maintain all-round military forces. Thus Britain would like to concentrate more of its resources on antisubmarine defense, thinks France could better spend its money on plugging one of the many gaps in NATO's conventional defenses than on the wasteful French A-bomb program (TIME, Dec. 9). Britain...
...interests. Before the faculty draws the conclusion that it is the students who are the cause of a weak tutorial, it would have to claim that the tutors and their teaching techniques are above improvement; something which they could not possibly claim at present. In some departments tutors merely follow a pre-ordained program which holds no more interest for them than for their students. Many departments assign tutors to teach a field about which they have little knowledge and less interest. Such men, forced to teach in an area they do not like and required to adhere...
...sportswriter (a type who can weep real tears over a carload of redundant wrestlers). Gallico's cat Thomasina should go down in literary history as an outstanding example of the pathetic fallacy, i.e., the attribution of human emotions to nonhuman objects. There are whole libraries of books that follow the fallacy like blind bird dogs-books about elephants, Teddy bears, toads, and even, in one notorious case (E. B. White's Stuart Little), mice. In the present case, the Gallico Cat ("Who Thought She Was God," according to the book's subtitle) mixes ailurophilia and religiosity...
...said, if he had even listened to himself at all. No one dared to be physical at all; people in the throes of fury or love kept their incongruous intellectual distances as they hurled power at each other only in their words. Excited Italians looking for a murderer cried, "Follow! Follow!" and slowly walked of stage...