Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind exist, Nigeria starts with 532 practicing doctors, 644 lawyers, 60 graduate engineers, accountants and surveyors, and thousands of Nigerian civil servants who have been on the job for years. Many Britons will remain to help, either on permanent salary status or special contracts. Snags are bound to persist; corruption, for example, is widespread and even semirespectable among Nigerians who for years have been accustomed to giving a "dash" (bribe) in exchange for a favor from tribal chiefs or government officials...
Calling Communism "the great enemy of Christianity," Pérez Serantes warned that "even within our own ranks there are some who persist in denying" the Communist threat. He thereby hinted at the division in the Cuban clergy over Castro. Among the religious orders, many Franciscans are refugees from Franco Spain and are generally still with Castro, while Jesuits tend to urge an anti-Communist crusade by the church...
...meal is disturbed by a funeral procession. When the mourners have left and the newest ghost has learned to free himself from his coffin, Rebeck explains to him what he knows of being dead. A ghost cannot touch or feel, grow tired or hungry. His human form and personality persist for a few weeks until he forgets the substance of his life-first, perhaps, the sound of a subway train, then his address, finally his name. The ghost, who was a professor named Michael Morgan until his wife (as he claims) poisoned him. vows noisily to cling to life. Then...
...fives are tired of play; they are eager and ready to begin serious work." They have been exposed to travel, nursery schools and working mothers. They visit the public library and fly in airplanes. They dial the telephone, operate hi-fi sets and read words on TV. Yet teachers persist in mindless "fun"-and leave the kids sucking their thumbs...
...When I tell people I'm from Wayne State University," jokes one professor, "they usually answer, 'Ah, yes. Fort Wayne, Indiana.' " The error is unlikely to persist. Not only has Detroit's fast-growing Wayne (21,260 students) become the nation's 16th-biggest university, but few other state schools are getting better so fast. The secret is that Detroit, auto maker to the nation, is in the midst of a cultural revolution. And no one is hungrier for intellectual horsepower than Wayne's students, the sons and daughters of the men who build...