Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all his other studies; another child, whose insecure home life had made him hate school, gained 1½ years in all his work, now argues to go to school even when he is sick. By Christmas vacation, teachers could report that the 100 students had doubled their proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic, had done the equivalent of eight months' work in four...
...best thing about Riot is its mood of driving concern to get certain facts about prison life before the public. The camera seeks them in the hate-dark faces of prisoners, on the power-cold features of officials. Here and there it stares to find a human face: the warden (impressively played by Emile Meyer) is a figure as granite-hard as his prison walls, but a chisel of harder experience seems to have gouged his face with understanding...
...sublets the sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...
...disclose the identity of the guilty boy, the teacher tells him that the question is "as simple as cops and robbers . . . You've got to let your conscience decide which side is wrong and which is right, and then you've got to stick. Even if you hate the cops; even if it means being a traitor to your friends. Even if a lot of bad people are on the good side and good people on the bad side...
...step forward is necessary," said Peking's People's Daily, ". . . to combat this spontaneous capitalist trend of the peasants." Peking has long complained that China's peasants are slow to hate their "class enemies," i.e., the surviving landlords who still own an acre or more. Judging by the reports of travelers reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also...