Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson County, Mo., Harry S. Truman won his audience when he told schoolteachers that "Lazy parents, baby sitters and a shortage of switches have made the teacher's role a hard one and have made our educational system a coddling process." Taking the view that gentlemen of the old schools had more chance to become gentlemen, and schooled, he recalled that his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner...
...university students. With teachers, as well as with students, about three in four believe that there are circumstances in which an individual ought to be subject to double jeopardy. More than four in ten of these teachers would deny an individual the right to a public trial, to due process of the law, or to freedom from excessive bail and fines...
...treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process of piddling away what might well be their last chance at the pennant...
...Senate Finance Committee last week, Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still emphasizes the perils of inflation, permitted himself a guarded hint that he thinks his policy may have succeeded. Said Martin: "I think savings are increasing rapidly. I am inclined to think we are reaching a leveling-out process, and interest rates may stabilize and even decline...
...unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...