Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main purpose of the project is to orient freshmen about the advantages of the House system in general, and, in this movie, of Adams House in particular...
...done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight. In Lincoln and His Generals, Williams does not refight the Civil War any more than he has to to make his point. The assumption that his readers know enough history to orient themselves will please Civil War buffs, even if it leaves some of the B-o-M's lady amateurs calling for compasses...
...International Council aims to create the conditions for world peace through the spread of education throughout the world. Whatmough, a member of the Permanent International Committee of Linguists, is currently writing a non-technical book on language to aid the organization. He feels that the Orient and the Occident can be linked closer together through the effective work of his committee...
Next morning on the German-Czech border, Vishinsky stepped out of the comfortable Orient Express, went aboard a dingy second-class Czech train decorated with a huge red star. A German border official noted that Mrs. Vishinsky's hair, described as black in her passport, had become a coppery red in Paris...
...nation's conscience. It contained a brilliant passage applicable to 1951's biggest news - the turmoil in the Middle East. Asian peoples, MacArthur said, would continue to drive for independence from the West and for material progress, and this drive "may not be stopped." The U.S. must "orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition, rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding and support, not imperious direction...