Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report states that the individual professor ought to decide for himself whether or not he shall use the objective approach, but stress that it is important in controversial questions that the teacher's position be made known. There should throughout be a careful distinction between fact and opinion, and total objectivity on the part of the student should not be demanded in places where opinions are discussed...
...Corporation finds Furry's deception of FBI in 1944 "grave misconduct" but that since it "occurred nine years ago in a very different climate of political opinion" it will not dismiss Furry but place him on probation for three years. "Dr. Furry's teachin is of high quality and has reflected no Communisiant," the Corporation adds...
Then he turned to read off a statement by that oft-bloodied but unbowed anti-unionist, Steelman Ernest Weir (in the St. Louis Post Dispatch): "Western nations should proceed on the premise that Russia now wants peace and more stable international relations," Meany snorted. "In my opinion," he said, "Mr. Weir would be serving America better if he renounced his attitude of suspicion and distrust of collective bargaining in our own country before he showered his trust on Khrushchev and his comrades behind the Iron Curtain." Somewhat to Meany's surprise-and probably to theirs too-applause broke from...
...clear all proposed legislation before the executive agencies submit it to Congress; this not only allows the bureau to shortstop any requests for new spending, but ensures the President that nobody is proposing legislation contrary to his announced policies. (The Budget Bureau keeps a card file of presidential opinion on all subjects, even compiled one on Adlai Stevenson...
Gallup Pollsters added up the figures in their annual popularity contest for women, proclaimed that Eleanor Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase...