Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cadbury said that the visio-audio ago in which we live has conditioned us as spectators. This method of vicarious participation carries over to our religious observances, he felt...
This slip is genuine libel. The libel laws provide that defamatory criticism of educational institutions--including the quality, character and method of their instruction--is permitted since they are institutions in which the public has a "substantial interest." But it also provides that such defamatory criticism, that is criticism which holds the institution up to "ridicule, hatred or contempt," must be based on true facts. The burden of truth lies with the defendant in the libel suit...
...view could not have been more widely divergent. There was no possibility of a successful negotiation to bridge them." The only real question now "is not whether Germany will rearm, but how she will rearm−and we are quite convinced that EDC within NATO offers the surest method yet devised for the security of Germany, the security of Europe and even for the security of Soviet Russia...
Under the support plan suggested by former Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in 1949 the second method would have been used. But to prevent farmers from flooding the market, raising the cost of the support program prohibitively, the Brannan Plan included a quota system to restrict crop production. The response of Mid-Western farmers and conservative farm organizations was prompt and negative. The alleged "regimentation" and dependence on a yearly Congressional appropriation were so repulsive that the proposal had to be shelved...
...gave him a lifelong limp. Nerve alone won his commission in the Royal Flying Corps, but once in the air, Slessor proved a topflight pilot. In the Sudan in 1916, he swooped down on a dervish cavalry outfit, routed it with Lewis gunfire and bombs, and "by this unexpected method of assault," wrote the official R.A.F. historian, "destroyed the enemy morale...