Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats for the Fifth Republic" (De Gaulle had forbidden the use of his name "even in adjectival form" in any party title). As to the direction of the future, Pompidou and the other speakers left that vague, no doubt for fear of infringing on the prerogatives of the absent master of the Elysees. De Gaulle was, intoned Pompidou, much as if he were invoking the Holy Spirit, "here directing our policy with firmness and clairvoyance...
...spite of that stricture, Pompidou has managed to make himself noticed. As the chief Gaullist spokesman in the National Assembly, he has proved a masterly orator, demolishing the opposition by a mixture of hard economic facts with wit and elegant phraseology. Twice this year he has displayed these same rhetorical talents on long TV interview programs, has made state visits to Austria and India and soon will journey to Iran. And every two weeks he invites the most important Gaullist Deputies to his office at the Hotel Matignon for strategy sessions, laying the foundation for the day when they will...
...neither charitable nor accurate, but it did contain at least one grain of truth. In 28 years, Spellman put up the greatest mass of ecclesiastical building in history-well over $500 million for schools, churches and other institutions-earning for himself an unquestioned reputation as the church's master builder...
There was no doubt about the guilt of the boys involved. The parents of one had reported to Cheseboro that the boys were pooling weekly allowances to buy pot. Confronted by their head master, all confessed, and all 14 were sent packing. Six other "peripheral" users were placed on probation...
...students, with the aid of their advisers, prepare lists of courses in which they would like to be enrolled with preferences and acceptable substitutes. The data are translated into computer language, coded, and punched onto IBM cards, then fed into the computer, which takes minutes to print out a master schedule-student schedules, teacher schedules, room-use schedules -a complete catalogue of who is to teach what, when, where and to whom...