Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the riddled body of King Feisal slumped down before Baghdad's royal palace, Kassem had the reputation of being the King's most loyal soldier. But in fact he had been quietly nursing plans of revolution for 24 years, had skillfully used his official position to recruit younger officers-notably, mercurial Abdul Salam Aref, who became his closest "brother in revolt" and took to proclaiming, "I am Kassem's son." In 1956, at a meeting in his bachelor house on the outskirts of Baghdad, Kassem merged his network with another military conspiracy, became supreme leader...
...Kardezh in eastern Tibet, forced the Reds to supply it by airlift. Other Khambas cut roads, raided munitions depots, tied down troops. Chinese settlers brought in by the Communists wilted under the savage Tibetan climate, native hostility, armed attack. Tibetan Communists or loyal government workers proved difficult to recruit...
Simon, John Phelps and Bill Granik were also praised by Garrison. "Our chief weakness has been lack of depth," he added, whereas "many of the schools we face recruit from large ROTC units." Garrison also pointed to the team's lack of a coach. "Most of the teams we face have coaches, and we suffer from not having the advice and moral support a coach could give...
...national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly at all by what his students produce, since they usually do so only after he is dead, and seldom credit him with their success. Under these circumstances, scholars tend to recruit colleagues who will enhance the immediate professional reputation of their department, rather than teachers who might, in the distant future, enhance the local reputation of the college, to which the recruiter has only a secondary allegiance...
...would be equally unwise to recruit students chiefly on the basis of taking part in something "experimental." The "experimental" has, for many, the implications that discipline is unnecessary, that the arts offer a way of life which can elude normal obligations and limitations, that the educational community should be set up in opposition to the society as a whole. Such utopian and Bohemian aims are not part of the New College proposal...