Word: personable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outraged British subject wrote the King at the end of the 17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...also announced a new method of choosing plays by which anyone connected with the University may have a play produced. The interested person must submit a detailed resume of the show and possible staging difficulties involved in its production. This resume must be handed in at the HDC office by next Friday...
...part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about for the answer, and blench under the cool satire of his tutor, but once inside his office he is a different person. This double role may conceivably lead the student-leader into almost a withdrawal into what might be termed academic schizophrenia in which he loses contact with the academic reality of Harvard and narrows his world to that of the group he heads...
...class, men who are deserving of such a position but who, for various reasons, are reluctant to put themselves forward in what is essentially a popularity contest. By mere dint of his position, a Master knows who these people are and he can see to it that no qualified person is left off the ballot. Anyone not nominated by his Master is free to place his own name before the electorate by gathering twenty-five names on a petition...
...person tries to use ten fingers to catch ten fleas at the same time," warned Peking's People's Daily not long ago, "it is quite possible that he will not catch even one. Fleas must be caught one after the other." Last week, in deference to this folksy dictum, economic planners all over Red China were lowering their sights...