Word: rein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyed by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is that of having guessed right about Lenin in 1917. It is a point that Molotov, in his 30 years of steely self-discipline in the service of the egocentric Stalin, seldom boasted about. Last week 67-year-old Molotov gave rein to his long-suppressed Bolshevik pride in an article that took up two-thirds of a page in Pravda...
Although the move will naturally result in closer administrative rein over the Program and its Defense Policy Seminar, an increase in this control has been seen as an important by-product of the incorporation into the new Center...
...publishing fact than on inserting enough fiction to give their stories the ring of truth; often a single story is patched together from unrelated episodes in newspaper clips or readers' suggestions. The magazines rely heavily on free-lance contributors (top price: 5? a word), who have a free rein. Most writers and editors are women. Says True Confessions (circ. 1,339,922) Editor Florence Schetty: "Even confessions stories by men somehow read more red-blooded if they're actually written by women...
...combined pressure of required courses, required periods, and a tutorial bibliography should be relieved by a kind of tutorial which can give personal interests a freer rein. But the Department's tutorial program, as it now exists, only adds to the aggravation. Sophomore tutorial exists in name only, since groups are formed out of English 10 and really just serve as section meetings for that course. This is unavoidable for non-honors as well as honors candidates. Certainly solid background is a necessary prerequisite for a good student and scholar, but a liberal education must mean more than general knowledge...
...rare exception who is more concerned with his tutee's desire than with the Department's stipulations. In his senior year, the English honors candidates must race more busily than ever through required books and courses so that if the tutor did wish to give him a free intellectual rein, thesis and general requirements are too oppressive a weight to permit...