Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself once moodily remarked: "You know, I'm the kind that prefers a fast, flashy sports car with all its risks to a slow, safe passenger...
...many of the teachers, the course is anything but a snap. While the pupils grasp the latest teaching with ease, the teachers must first discard much of what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...
Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, predicted yesterday that a total of "around 60 or 70" students from the seven Houses would move out. Other Masters were optimistic that such a number could be reached, but felt that it was too early to tell at present...
...Masters stated that no set criteria other than the stipulations set forth in Dean Watson's statement would be used to judge the applicants' reasons for leaving the House. Watson said that to move out a student must secure the approval of his Master and of his parents...
John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, commented that "Once you get down to the practical problem of living out, it is not an easy one." He expressed the sentiment that it might be difficult for students to find agreeable living conditions in Cambridge...