Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House, the Pentagon and the remote missile-and rocket-testing areas from Florida to Eniwetok there was a new sense of urgency last week. Across the U.S. most of the post-Sputnik criticism and political backbiting gave way to the closest thing to an identity with national purpose that the U.S. has known since Korea...
...freshman class is 50%. Taken out of context, the statistic that there are nearly 4% fewer public school graduates in the freshman class than there were three years ago is significant, but not alarming. But the figure takes on additional significance when it is realized that it reverses a post-war trend that was expected to continue. The new trend shows every sign of continuing unless the Board of Admissions makes a conscious attempt to regulate admissions from public and private schools...
...meeting between the President and the Prime Minister in Washington last week may well prove to be one of the most historic events in the post-War history of the Western alliance. The summit meeting and the terse communiques that emerged from it take on their potential significance because the agreements reached--on the substantive issues of pooling scientific research and strengthening NATO's policy making functions--could represent a total revision in Western patterns of response to Soviet challenges...
James V. Farrell, for thirty years Equipment Manager for the Department of Athletics, is leaving his post as of next July...
Diplomatic sources used such terms as audacious, surprising and bold to describe the unexpected step which put another professional soldier, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, into the high post of defense minister...