Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of law, but only weak tradition has guarded his privacy from undue congressional prying. Ostensibly, investigating groups intruded only on a citizen's private life or beliefs to gather testimony concerning specific problems. And the inquiry presumably would end in new legislation. Witnesses were deeply involved in the particular situation under investigation, and their testimony was so relevant that national welfare demanded the sacrifice of their anonymity...
...insurance applications piled up (from such publishers as Curtis, Macmillan, TIME Inc., Pocket Books, Reader's Digest, etc.), State revived the program. It also clarified its stand on "controversial" writers. Said the office of new Information Chief Robert L. Johnson: "We are interested only in what the particular publication says. A writer who has been criticized is not him self forbidden. But if a person puts out a publication designed to convey Communist propaganda, it will, of course, be disqualified...
...church services, and that in his compound there had been no forced labor. But a returned officer, Lieut. Roy Jones of Minneapolis, who was captured early in the war, said that Communist treatment of the prisoners was "unbelievably poor" before the truce talks began, improved later. "I refer in particular to food, housing, clothing and the conditions under which men were forced to travel. It certainly feels wonderful to be a free man again...
...program. He was soon signed up by 151 stations, most of them affiliates of his old network. By week's end the list had grown to more than 170 stations, with about 95% carrying the show under local sponsorship. Delighted with the good results of his particular ill wind, Pearson says he has no intention of returning to network broadcasting: "The way it is, I have about 170 sponsors. If I do something to lose one-or a dozen -it doesn't matter. It's not like being tied to one sponsor...
...other time, the sight of children playing in his father's garden might have seemed a happy one to young Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet of Hartford, Conn. But on one particular day in 1814, it was not. Among the children was nine-year-old Alice Cogswell-the little deaf girl from next door who could neither speak nor write. As he watched her trying so hard to keep up, 26-year-old Thomas Gallaudet began to think: perhaps he could teach...