Word: originated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report recommends that there be "intense discussion" to determine the importance of such factors as students' secondary school education and geographical origin in House selection. A system allowing limited master's choice--where masters could select some students for their Houses--would be established...
...worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought a call from Jackie's husband to then Post Publisher Philip Graham. "Maxine Cheshire has reduced my wife to tears," said the President. "Listen to her." Sure enough, there in the background was the First Lady, sobbing audibly...
...origin of that image is a parable of Mexican religion, race and national history. It is said that 445 years ago this week the Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec straw weaver named Juan Diego, who had recently converted...
...through an Eisenhower exchange fellowship. I was deeply impressed by the creative and revolutionary methods evolved in America in the fields of management and technology. My own personal experience in life led me to understand the importance of social mobility, providing full opportunities to all citizens regardless of birth, origin and creed, and thus ensuring a full development of individual talents and initiatives. I met Americans from every walk of life. I was impressed by the simplicity and straightforwardness of their manners and their friendliness to foreigners. I noticed, however, their lack of knowledge of actual conditions in other parts...
...ONLY BRIGHT SPOT in the results of the Massachusetts ballot questions was the passage of the state Equal Rights Amendment. Its approval adds a long overdue clause to the state constitution that bars discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion or national origin. The Massachusetts success of a state ERA reverses a pattern of ERA rejection set last year and has renewed efforts to approve the national...