Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps they may be overcome in a small private school in New York City. Walden was one of the schools which nearly a half-century ago pioneered John Dewey's ideas of progressive education, a movement which has swept through practically all American high schools. The general success of their earlier ventures left the question of the future purpose of these schools...
...convinced that in the clear light of events you will do your utmost to call back to their sense of duty those general officers or senior officers who have disobeyed their supreme commander . . . If you break all solidarity with those who have created a seditious movement, you will regain the confidence of the entire nation...
...between Algiers and Bougie, Ramdane Abbane graduated from a French lycée, managed to get one of the few civil-service jobs open to Moslems. From the first a hot-eyed revolutionary well-read in Marx, Abbane at 27 belonged to the inner council of the Algerian nationalist movement. Betrayed by an informer, he served five years in French prisons, emerged from jail in 1955 just as the rebellion was gathering strength...
...defeated by the shoulder harness. Over the hot mike I warned Brett: "There's a lead slug corning over your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece of string, with an invitation...
...this reason, the movement to found Harvard Clubs started in the midwest and the west, and since that time the allegiance of the alumnus in areas other than the New England and Middle Atlantic States has been to the Club rather than to the Class...