Word: resultantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exceeded the bounds of necessity. On his own initiative, Castro called these "showcase" tribunals into action--and while popular pressure may have demanded the executions which preceded and followed them, the only excuse for the trials themselves was to make an international case for the executions. The most significant result was to increase the frenzy of a citizenry already enraged by the memory of past horrors...
Johnson defended the group's role in taking stands on domestic and, international political questions. "You must remember that these policies were the result of a national congress after much debate," he said...
...British universities have changed more than any other single institution as a result of the social revolution in England since the war," according to Peter Laslett, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . He spoke last night on "British Universities in the Welfare State" at Winthrop House...
...Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival...
...important result of this exchange of information is that Khrushchev has indirectly retreated from his ultimatum to hand over the corridors to Berlin to the East German government on May 27. He has done this by backing down and accepting Western demands for a conference of Foreign Ministers, which would presumably negotiate plans for Berlin, Central Europe and a summit meeting. Thus, Macmillan's most important achievement is that by convincing Khrushchev that solutions may be reached by negotiation rather than by ultimatums and force, he has made the international situation less explosive...