Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his good friend John Foster Dulles died, Luce went to Arlington Cemetery and watched as the coffin was lowered. "Then," he later wrote, "people started home, walking in the sunlight and gentle breeze of a May day. The hours had been hours of reverence?and serenity. The last enemy is Death, but Death seems tangibly serene when it can be said of a man: he ran the course, he kept the faith." So, whatever his triumphs and failures, did Henry Robinson Luce...
...John Foster Dulles was the greatest of the cold-war warriors. His were the fightingest years of that war-and part of his skill was that not one single American died in battle...
...conviction last June, the Supreme Court suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
...scandal over CIA infiltration of the National Student Association [Feb. 24] is evidence of our Government's attempt to subvert education. It is disheartening when our leaders display such doubt in our democratic institutions that they feel the need of front organizations to foster the Administration's "line...
Their freshman year did nothing to foster interest in the sport -- in other words, it was a season that typifies-Harvard basketball Tryouts were started late in November; the 50 candidates were weeded out exasperatingly slowly; and there was less than a week between the squad's selection and the first game. The team was coached by Bruce Munro, who is the varsity soccer and lacrosse coach and not a hopps mentor. Perhaps most deadly of all, however, was Munro's goal of preparing his boys for next year...