Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board: "The reports of investigation disclosed information considered derogatory ... to the following effect: the employee [Taylor] was a member of a Soviet espionage ring headed by Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, which operated in Washington and New York in the early 1940s. The employee surreptitiously furnished to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster oral and written information affecting the national interests of the U.S. and other material and data of a confidential nature available to him as an employee of the U.S. Treasury Department. Silvermaster, in turn, transmitted the material furnished by the employee to agents of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Nathan Gregory...
...handsome, snappily dressed Oklahoman, has personally asked him, in audible tones, to win a million souls by July 1, 1956. This theophanous request-especially with a deadline-might give pause to many a lesser man, but it is made to order for the special talents of the Rev. Oral Roberts, 37-year-old evangelist and faith healer and the U.S.'s newest religious comet...
...praying. I will never rise until You speak to me." After several hours, he recounts, God ordered him to get up ("He spoke like a military commander"), get in his car, drive one block and turn right. As he started the right turn God gave him the healing power. Oral drove to the parsonage, ran into the house and shouted to his wife: "Evelyn, cook me a meal; the Lord has spoken...
When Sweezy refused to answer, he was declared in contempt of court and ordered confined until he answered. He was finally allowed out on bail, and his case will come up before the N. H. Supreme Court for oral arguments in September...
Second, the department would probably answer that, if class time were devoted to oral instruction, the student would be jeopardized in passing the language requirement examination which is geared to testing grammatical and reading ability. Once the importance of oral training is conceded, it would be begging the question to raise this objection. The student could be tested orally and his grade then incorporated with his grade on the written examination as constituting his language requirement examination grade. An alternative solution might be in eliminating the "requirement" examination altogether, simply requiring a grade of B plus or higher...