Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without particular reference to the desires of Dwight Eisenhower. Items...
Open Season. In his welcoming speech, Emperor Haile Selassie insisted that "economic and political progress should go hand in hand." For the next few days it was open season on the Europeans. Outvoted 9 to 6, they got not one single office on the commission. France in particular was constantly scolded for its policy in Algeria. Sometimes the Africans even began squabbling among themselves. But just when the commission seemed about to be killed off before ever getting started, the delegates began to settle down and work together...
...second day the general essay which takes two hours, will precede the newly added specific one. "This essay is not a course type question," Taylor emphasized. "The student will be asked to organize the field in a particular way. We hope for a better showing than in the past from good students...
...Indian language. I could tell she wanted to be friends." The Amueshas, it turned out. were peaceful sun worshipers-their only word for the sun is "our father"-who took to the idea of school enthusiastically. They are perfectly willing, for instance, to catch a particular variety of fish so that it can be photographed, sketched by artists at Yarinacocha, and reproduced in a primer...
...Constitution," which is also the topic for a series of lectures Truman has agreed to give at Columbia University. However the spokesman expressed the opinion that Truman might be persuaded to give a lecture on a topic of "a more international nature, one more in line with this particular lectureship...