Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* A special act of Congress, rushed through without objection or debate and promptly signed by the President, granted Chennault his deathbed promotion.
Beadle might be a farmer today if the Wahoo high school had not had a teacher, Miss Bess McDonald, with the gift of infectious enthusiasm. She taught physics and chemistry, and young George fell in love with both her and her sciences. He spent long evenings at her house, wrapped...
This year, smelling victory, Snedden spent five months in Washington working hand in glove with Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, and himself boss of a string of eight daily newspapers in Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and South Dakota. Snedden paced the Senate and House office buildings, flipping through 3-by...
Frozen Difference. But Labor did have one grave objection to the "partnership" plan: to provide for separate assemblies of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, and to invite both the Turkish and Greek governments to share a kind of condominium with Britain was to freeze differences into a permanent mold, rather...
In a society that placidly accepts the practice of condensing books for adults, only a doughty purist would object to cutting down literary classics to fit the minds of children. But such an objection came from the monthly Bulletin of the Council for Basic Education, a cranky, flea-sized (16...