Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the volunteers, who now come to the ward every weekday afternoon, these particular patients have little to break their monotony. Infrequently they do have access to the limited "occupational therapy" facilities, but generally they just sit--waiting for volunteers, bedtime, and meals. Meals, according to an occupational therapist at the hospital, are "quite a sight." "The food is mainly bread and macaroni," she bitterly explained, adding, "The patients are herded to the cafeteria, or rather to the mess hall--and I mean mess...
Despite the recent February Revolution and the world war that was raging to the west, Moscow in the late winter of 1917 was not a very excited city. Michael Karpovich, a young army officer attached to a government bureau, felt no particular emotion as he walked down the street on a routine errand. When he happened to meet an old friend whom he had not seen for several years, Karpovich was more pleased than surprised. He would have been shocked indeed, had someone told him that this chance meeting would remove him from Russia for the rest of his life...
...posts are closely related, since over half of the "special students," those not under any particular branch of the University, are generally foreign students. As counsellor of foreign students, Miles acts as liaison between the students and the government, to be sure they comply with such regulations as visa and alien job laws...
While Martin is concerned on the whole with design rather than any particular social message, some of his prints like the symbolic "U. N. 1953" indicate an incisive social conscience...
...Amintore Fanfani could long continue as party secretary. Whatever Gronchi might or might not do as President until 1962, his election in an atmosphere of doubt, ambiguity and faction, proved that there is nothing resembling strong leadership in Italian politics generally, or in the Christian Democratic Party in particular...