Word: martinizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coursewide curve is being loosened to make it comparable with other Core classes, and professors have developed a new formula to lessen grade competition within individual sections, according to Assistant Professor of Economics Douglas W. Elmendorf, who teaches the class with Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...flaws were in Hitler's overconfident detractors. The Nazi Party received strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...
...called Dachau. This was not yet the era of the gas chambers but rather of the truncheon, not mass murder but the gradual silencing of all opposition. "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist," said Pastor Martin Niemoller, a former U-boat commander who had once briefly supported the Nazis but eventually spent four years in Dachau. "Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because...
...easily could have stopped Hitler by force, and their failure has long been condemned as "appeasement." But to the leaders of Britain and France, appeasement was a proudly proclaimed policy, meaning simply negotiating rather than fighting. "Appeasement between the wars was always a self-confident creed," Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert wrote in The Roots of Appeasement. "It was both utopian and practical. Its aim was peace for all time, or at least for as long as wise men could devise...
...mood of the terrorists seemed to be shifting. The spiritual leader of Hizballah, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, modified his tough position by calling on all parties to help end the ordeal of the hostages. Explained Martin Kramer, an expert in Shi'ite affairs at Tel Aviv University: "They want to regain their dignity and pride and then proceed to negotiate...