Word: rift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a chronic shortage of funds, the Ed School during the last ten years has impressively expanded its programs in teacher training and research. The faculty has been greatly enlarged and overhauled, and the School has gone a long way toward closing its historic rift with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...they rarely met, rarely agreed, and as the war drew to an end, they blamed each other for the defeat. In this scrupulously documented and vividly told history, Oxford Historian F. W. Deakin, who collaborated with Winston Churchill on his monumental war memoirs, shows how far-reaching the rift was, how it poisoned relations between the two countries from the top command to the soldiers in the field...
...made his tactical point by accepting Moscow's call for bilateral negotiations over the Sino-Soviet rift and inviting Nikita Khrushchev to Peking. "The Communist movement has reached a critical juncture. The time has come when differences have to be settled." declared the Red Chinese, proposing that Russia's Premier stop off in Peking on the way to Cambodia, where a state visit by Khrushchev has been discussed for some time. Alternatively, suggested Mao. a Red Chinese delegation could go to Moscow to discuss the squabble...
Finally, when the School of Education was close to a financial collapse and faculty rift was "as wide as ever," Conant named Francis Kepple '38 Dean of the Ed School. Keppel's timely arrival in 1948 signalled the beginning of the M.A.T. program's success...
...father of three, elected to his nonpartisan post last November in a landslide victory for which California's standpat educators had a big share of the blame. "There is a great difference between leaders of my profession and parents." says Rafferty. "My job is to keep this rift from growing larger...