Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bill, a soft little item with a quarter of the tuition and the ever-present medical fee, will become a deadly weapon in the hands of the Bursar if not paid in time...
...policy of supporting all anti-Communist countries, no matter how corrupt or undemocratic their governments may be, led to the debacle in China, and can lose the cold war for us if it is followed on a world-wide scale. The ideological side of the present struggle is more important in the long run than the military phase, and the only way to win it is to discourage all undemocratic elements in the West...
...Spain's present economic position is very weak. Many observers feel that Franco's government will fall under the weight of its own corruption if it does not receive American aid and is ostracized by the United Nations. If indeed France's demise is a possibility, we should do nothing to delay it, since an end of dictatorship in Spain would greatly strengthen our own world position...
...became increasingly evident to the students leading the discussions, however, that the sessions were getting nowhere because there were too many questions that could not be answered by anyone not a theological authority. At one of the meetings, in 1942, Father Feeney happened to be present. The students were so impressed with his answers that they asked him back frequently...
That afternoon Father Feeney announced that he believed his present silencing was "totally invalid." There the matter rested except for a statement by the Archbishop that the headlines were no place to settle a question of doctrine...