Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME is to try to get at the facts and their meaning, to find out what's really going on-in the U.S. or in Bolivia, in art or in politics. As responsible journalists in a free society, we take our job with the utmost seriousness, and I know of no publication that devotes more effort to covering the news and, indeed, to the uncovering of it. Thus, we are likely to be singled out among journals and be ourselves the subject of comment. And often it will mean that as practitioners of responsible journalism we shall be dealing...
...then why had De Gaulle always refused to use the word "integration," meaning that Algeria is as integral a part of France as Normandy? Said De Gaulle: "What have I done since I have been in power? In 1943 I gave the Moslems the right to vote. Isn't this already integration? Those who shout loudest for integration are the selfsame people who opposed this step then. What they want is for somebody to give them back Papa's Algeria. But Papa's Algeria is dead, and if they don't understand that, they will...
...lesson in democracy." A vote in favor of lopping a day off the nation's traditional six-day school week seemed a foregone conclusion. To no one's surprise, the five-day forces among the kids took the spotlight with a motto delectable as smorgasbord: "Saturdays off mean less work...
...While we were straining for victory, just close to the finish, a girl in the other boat lost her footing. I mean, her feet slipped out of her stirrups, or whatever you call those things, and she caught a crab. We won, just because of that...
...WHRB, Kopit has revealed no startling point of view that seems original or significant. His achievement so far lies in his technical excellence, in an ability to construct characters and plots that are credible, and in a talent for speaking in a lyrical and pleasing voice. That is no mean feat...