Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best herds of Holstein Friesian dairy cattle in South America. Founded Quito's excellent American School in 1940, after one of his daughters came home from the Colegio Aleman crying "Heil Hitler!" Served as ambassador to Washington, 1944-46. Elected President in 1947 on an independent reform ticket for a four-year term. Concentrated on restoring political stability (there had been five Presidents in eleven months). Has thus far succeeded in maintaining a completely democratic regime. Has also modernized administration and brought in technicians of Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corp. to help improve agriculture...
...five minutes . . . If we had found one thing wrong in all those six years-one attendance at a meeting, one subscription to the Daily Worker-it would have been different. I said to one of the Senators, 'Are Bentley and Budenz the only people that can reform...
...inspired such axioms as "There are thirty-six ways of meeting a dilemma and the best of them is to run away." To an Oriental, this represented the wisdom of the bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance, sanitation and overall reform, it sounded like simple sloth. Faced with cultural mysteries, Westerners concocted superficial myths. The big myth about the Chinese: that they don't know how to "get things done." Upshot of such reasoning: Chiang Kai-shek's government was scuttled while otherwise hardheaded Westerners (e.g., "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell) sang...
...October, Lampy shocked the College by inaugurating a clean humor policy--"To say that the Lampoon is about to reform is not quite the story," President F.H. Nichols said, "for I think that the Lampoon has always been the cleanest of college comics; there have been, however, occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical lapses." The Lampoon wasn't the only College publication to make innovations. The Advocate began livening up its issues "to rid itself of the stigma of being merely 'academic' or 'precious...
...have discovered, over the years (1886-1951), that an excellent plan for instituting a much-needed reform is by way of the columns of the Harvard CRIMSON...