Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with the Crimea decision. ... I am looking forward to the end of these police states...
More specific was the charge of Dr. Elizabeth Gourlay, a London school doctor. Said she: "We have never had so many multiple boils, sores, rashes and scurvy. . . . With regard to vitamin C, we have been reduced to an almost 18th-Century plight...
...Most parents regard passing ... as a child's democratic right. . . . Unless a teacher wishes to be picked to pieces . . . she cannot fail a third of her pupils, and so she passes nearly everybody. . . ." Meanwhile, sighs Principal Henry, "precious little education, even for the others, is now going...
...York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
Anywhere else, the fog that seeped into noses, ears and throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...