Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, no dormitory imposes a schedule of living on its residents. Some girls sleep all day, study or cavort all night; some hew to the standard pattern of classes and studying all day, sleeping during the night; others are thoroughly unroutinized...
...successful business executive, as she checked "yes" and "no" on a long list of requests for appointments and telephone priorities. Now & then she paused reflectively and puffed on a Parliament, then turned back to work. Outside, down through the mazes, corridors and channels of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), the news was spreading that Oveta Hobby was a lady in complete command...
...Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce; at the top, the Boer elite, settled on the good earth and ruled by their priests (the predikants). Top of the pile would be the philosopher-President: Johannes Strydom...
...apple pie" and fundamental Americanism. They have explained the meaning of faculty tenure, a concept which seems to confuse the public, by comparing it to the tenure of a judge. A professor must be able to teach, securely removed from monetary and social pressure which might force him to hew a fixed line. The university's goal is to present its students with a free choice of theory from an unbiased presentation of facts...
...China has openly proclaimed its league with Russia against the U.S.; last week it ordered the seizure of all American assets in China (estimated at more than $100 million worth of mission and business properties). Peking's propagandists hew to the hate-America, love-Russia line. A striking visual example was the recent Red China anniversary parade in Peking. Ranks of marchers bore aloft portraits of Mao (TIME, Nov. 6), and news pictures of the spectacle were apparently released for domestic propaganda. Other marchers carried images of Stalin. Pictures of these latter were sent to Moscow, and reached...