Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero," says the old teacher (Louis Calhern) to the new teacher (Glenn Ford), "and never turn your back to the class." Ford, an idealistic young man who hopes, as a teacher, to "shape minds, sculpt lives," looks puzzled. He knows that North Manual High School is "the garbage can of the educational system" of the big U.S. city he lives in, but is the situation really as bad as all that? He finds out that...
...Reserve. In the '30s at Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white gloves for Moscow's traffic cops...
Although Lamont usually terms himself an "independent radical, "Senator McCarthy would not withdraw the charge of "Communist." In the investigation which ultimately led to Lamont's indictment, the Senator used as evidence against him the Army's reference in a so-called "Communist" instruction manual to Lamont's book, The Peoples of the Soviet Union. The condemned military manual, he reasoned, infected Lamont vicariously. the latter declined to testify on the ground that McCarthy had no authority as a Senator to question a private author's right to freedom of the press...
...mystic, prayer is not an occasional petition to God, but full-time work as tangible and varied in technique as anything a man can make with hand or mind. Sometimes a mystic is able to leave behind some manual or blueprint to help others with the work of prayer...
...their talk to whisper an urgent message in his ear. Hastily excusing himself, Surana raced with his cops to the nearby village of Lahardi, arriving just in time to halt another and even grislier religious ritual. Instead of attending a government-sponsored rally in honor of the dignity of manual labor, as they were supposed to, the peasants of Lahardi had flocked en masse to a hillock to watch a holy man being buried alive...