Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tufts Arena Theatre is not in a class with the other two groups, nor does it pretend to be. It is a semi-professional institution whose members are still in the process of acquiring their basic crafts...
...visit to Riga was interesting in this respect. There, the Russians complain that the Latvians are "discriminating against us." The Latvian language is replacing Russian in many educational institutions and in some state organizations. Result: some Russians are leaving. In Estonia I was told the process is more noticeable; Estonians refuse to speak Russian and turn their backs on the Russians in stores. And the Russians are taking...
...four classes, set up three years ago in temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. They were a strange sight to be parading a courtyard befitting a grand motel. Incongruous was the battle dress, designed for fighting men, worn by youngsters to whom the annealing process of military life was still incomplete-and incongruous, too, were the orders shouted by cadet officers, straight and cold as steel girders: "All men quartered in Area D, be sure to keep your shades pulled when changing clothes! There are secretaries across the way, and we don't want them...
...describes the world in terms of his own body: mouth of a river, brow of a hill, bosom of the sea. But in naming the interior of his body, man reverses the process and borrows from the outside world, e.g., eardrums, windpipes, bowels (Lat., botellus, small sausage), clavicle (Lat., clavicula, a small key), tonsils (Lat., tonsillae, shaped like stakes...
...government makes it compulsory as a means of population control. But voluntary sterilization might be justified ("after the procreation of a proper number of children") as "a safe and easy method of family planning." One disadvantage of sterilization, the report warns, is that it is "generally an irreversible process" and may be regretted in changed circumstances. The bishops note with disapproval that sterilization operations are being increasingly sought and recommended "without any adequate appreciation of its gravity as a moral decision...