Word: pronunciamento
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, though recent reports from Russia by Walter Lippmann and Adlai Stevenson delineate the immense extent of Communist appeal to the world's underdeveloped areas. To answer the Soviet challenge with half-way measures, such as the President has cited, or with threats on the order of Secretary Dulles' pronunciamento seems the height of folly...
...days after the Dartmouth victory set off a few firecrackers of football enthusiasm, a little-known but official student panel, the Undergraduate Ahletic Council, launched a small rocket of its own. The pronunciamento: starting with the Princeton game, four varsity athletes would replace four members of the eight-man cheerleading squad, and in future years all cheerleaders would be major letter-winners...
After a rebel "council of war," Beirut Insurgent Leader Saeb Salam, ex-Prime Minister and graduate of the American University of Beirut, issued a ringing pronunciamento to his men: "Repulse the enemy with your breasts! Fight them with your spears! Kill them with your bullets!" Salam promised a fight in "every block, every house, every room...
...danger of hooky all but evaporates too, since a truant officer sees to it that students either stay at school or attend sacred studies. A truant officer's badge is more effective than a parental pronunciamento any day. Released time is thus a great aid to a church group in getting future parishioners to attend classes that they otherwise would have ignored. If not, why would America's churches fight so stubbornly for released time programs...
...most unsportsmanlike pronunciamento...