Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These three different instructors which the student meets each week prevent one particular accent or idiosyncrasy from becoming ingrained in the student's own formulation of the language. After the first six weeks of the course, moreover, the groups are divided into "fast" and "not-so-fast" and the instructors are shuffled, providing another change in accent...
...federal government is undoubtedly well-aware of both groups, but it could be easy to suppose on the basis of Little Rock that their bark was worse than their bite. The decision to use troops in Arkansas was probably a pragmatic approach to a particular situation which demanded forceful and unequivocal action. Yet it would be dangerously easy to generalize a policy of armed force to effect integration...
...fact of the matter is that the federal government has little immediate control over what will occur in a particular state. The NAACP can bring suit in Mississippi as well as in Arkansas, and when a court orders integration, the government has no alternative but to enforce the order if it is flouted. It is possible, indeed probable, that situations such as the present one will arise where the use of force will be necessary. And in some of these instances, the few outbreaks of violence which occurred in Little Rock may appear like an in significant skirmish before...
From this rank he rose steadily, becoming chief of the force in 1951. In his years in the department, Ready has had numerous experiences both interesting and exciting, but after 41 years he can't single out any one particular incident that sticks in his mind. "All those years just seem to run together," he explains, "and it's pretty hard to remember one thing from the other...
Open House. Though an Israeli official dismissed Khrushchev's hint as "too hypothetical to consider," his government is officially dedicated to the proposition that it welcomes all Jews, and Israel is sentimentally committed in particular to Russia's Jews, since Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and many other Israeli leaders were born in Russia. When Ben-Gurion said last August: "The survival and peace of the state of Israel require the addition of at least 2,000,000 Jews in the near future," he was thinking of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews-because nowhere else...