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Word: fronters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greece tried out still another Prime Minister last week. It was far from clear whether the new man could solve the country's six-week-old political deadlock. He was 58-year-old Elias Tsirimokos, a onetime Socialist and Communist-fronter who only a few days before had deserted King Constantine's enemy, ex-Premier George Papandreou, to accept the King's invitation to form a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The Continuing Crisis | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...better; anthropology has grown from nothing to good. Last year Litchfield won faculty respect when the state legislature, which supplies 16% of Pitt's budget, scented "subversive" activities at the university. Litchfield spent $100,000 investigating the case of a professor accused of being a Communist fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring pollsters to gauge Pitt's public "image." The Madison Avenue approach appalls academic purists. But it turns out that among the leading citizenry of Pittsburgh, 65% now feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pitt's Big Thinker | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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