Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, most foreign observers feel that the government's approach has been curiously low-keyed. There is little official follow-up to induce the population to cooperate. In an address in Madras last week, Shastri talked mostly about the border war, passed by the food crisis with the remark that "two months hence we may have to face special difficulties." Few Indians have responded to his appeal to eat less. Fewer still are growing gardens. The Royal Calcutta Turf Club at first voted to dig up its emerald inner oval for crops, but so far the immaculate infield remains...
...That's the new school" is a prideful remark that almost all Americans can make in showing off their communities. In thousands of cases, the shape, size and equipment of the new building owe everything to the little-known profession of school consulting. The best-known of the consultants is Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, 58, a nerveless, gruffly warm expert whose firm, the busiest in the nation, has helped 800 school boards mold the down-to-earth terms of education for millions of kids...
...omission of a line of type in Friday's CRIMSON a remark on the Department of Social Relations appears to be attributed to Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Government Department in Friday's CRIMSON. It was actually Richard G. Leahey, director of the Laboratories for the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, who said, "Federal support for the behavioral sciences came later and they now are beginning to face the problem that we have already faced...
...With the remark "Using Freud's techniques, the band would suggest that frustrating childhood experiences are the reasons for excessive drinking at football games," the band would spell "mama." Eyeing the crowd the ban would then play "This Could be the Start of Something Big" and spell out "trauma...
...Prince should not have been so surprised. During his Red China visit, he had yielded to the blandishments of his hosts to remark at a state banquet that "it is impossible to defeat the imperialists if one accepts compromise with them"-which in the context of the Sino-Soviet quarrel was a clear slap at Moscow. The Prince's maneuver was Orientally scrutable: he feels that "the irresistible march forward of the Chinese people" is certain to sweep all Asia. By riding with the Chinese tiger, he hopes to avoid being gobbled up. It is likely to be quite...