Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paper Tiger. Dulles went upstairs to a room crowded with 42 correspondents, adjusted his steel-rimmed glasses, and read the Newport Warning straight through. Then he made the message even plainer in a "background briefing" under the standard ground rule that he would be quoted only as an unnamed "high official," until, two days later, angry ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson announced to one and all the identity of the briefing officer...
Ringing his bell for order, T.U.C. President Tom Yates tacitly endorsed Foulkes's position, quickly passed on to less controversial issues. But the incident left a bad taste in many a British mouth. Suggesting that the T.U.C. pass a rule banning Reds from office in its affiliated unions, the liberal Manchester Guardian asked: "Why should democratic trade unionists be expected to put up with Communists as a matter of political course...
...future, Ruiz Cortines passed on one short rule to guide his successors: "What is necessary must be made possible." Then he added an important corollary: "But every demand that ignores reality deserves oblivion...
...Foley is not exclusively a knuckle-rapper. "I have sympathy," he says, "for the Cypriots as a civilized people who have for generations been denied the ordinary rights of self-rule and freedom. If we Englishmen can't settle a simple matter like Cyprus without getting in deeper every day, we might as well get out of business as leader of the Commonwealth." Foley thinks Cyprus eventually ought to go under U.N. trusteeship...
Anybody with enough education credits can teach anything, in the view of some school administrators. All too often, charges Donald R. Tuttle. professor of English at Cleveland's Fenn College, the rule for teachers of English becomes simply, "Anybody who speaks English can teach it." Result, according to Tuttle: only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subject extensively, and another third is "seriously underprepared...