Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More recently, it has been increasingly apparent that Moscow recognizes its failure to divide the West over the German rearmament issue. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Dwight Eisenhower were convinced that last week's deeds in Europe adequately set the stage for words. Said Dulles: "Our experience has shown that each time we have confronted the Russians with a strong and determined act they have been willing to talk seriously...
...same time that the Ford Foundation set up the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the second subsidiary agency was established--the Fund for Adult Education. Founded to provide adults with liberal education beyond formal schooling, the Fund seeks to foster "the ability to think independently and the habit of critical thought rather than passive acceptance of ready-made opinions...
...degree of Chief Commander (for sending a regimental combat team from the Royal Thai Army to assist in the Korean fighting). When the Premier bowed low and placed the tops of his fingers together before his chest, the traditional Asian "joining of palms" to express respect and appreciation, John Foster Dulles whispered to the President: "They don't shake hands in Thailand." Said Ike: "I know, I know. But we do." He gave Phibun a hearty handshake, then took him out to Burning Tree and beat him in a game of golf...
...program, wrote Dwight Eisenhower to his Secretary of State last month, would be the man picked to head the State Department's new International Cooperation Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
...cushion the blow when the first blue slips (academic warnings) go out. For a student who has always been accustomed to getting As, the almost inevitable Cs can seem a crushing failure. They are also pretty hard on the proud parents, and it is one of Dean of Freshmen Foster Strong's most ticklish tasks to reassure the older generation that a C at Caltech is the equivalent of an A or a B almost anywhere else. In spite of all the cushioning, however, some students fall by the wayside; by graduation only about two out of three have...