Word: risked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of exiles appear from a neighboring village which has been sacked by the Turks for aiding Greek resistance, and the town must now decide whether to shelter them at the risk of incurring Turkish wrath. Content with prosperous servitude, the village's Orthodox pope and his council turn them away, telling the town that the strangers have cholera. The pope justifies this lie as a figure of speech--the exiles bear the "cholera" of rebellion and anarchy...
...situation in Korea, in which the Kaesong-Panmunjom truce talks had dragged on for 18 months while U.S. and U.N. forces suffered thousands of casualties a week. He informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against...
Preparation, the "sure thing" versus the risk, is causing much of the grief in admissions circles today. For one thing, an unerring relationship between academic ability and the ability to score well on College Board Tests has never been satisfactorily established. The Predicted Rank List, which tries to sum up ability and motivation, is by no means infallibile, since Group IV PRL entrants have gone on to receive Magnas, and vice versa. Although an applicant will probably never stand or fall on Predicted Rank List alone, the trend is to lop off applicants on the very lowest range of ability...
...pressure from the faculty to raise standards of preparation in mathematics and foreign languages and thereby eliminate a certain amount of elementary instruction in the first years of college. But Harvard would probably continue to take boys with relatively poor high school backgrounds. Saving the reasons for the "risk" in admissions until later, it is interesting to observe how successfully the College has managed to assimilate the Westerner with algebra and plane geometry on his record without slowing up the Exonian who has had a year of advanced calculus. Most of the credit goes to the Advanced Standing Program...
...immature liver cannot handle, may pile up in the blood and cause brain damage. Best way to treat it, Dr. Dennis said, is to replace 80% to 90% of the baby's blood in an exchange transfusion. A note of caution: sulfa drugs seem to increase the risk of cerebral palsy from bile pigment, should not be given to preemies...