Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward a sterile conformity of thought and behavior. Richer was born 30 years too late because the school system now is interested in only making plowboys or well-oiled cogs in the social machine. As to the teaching of the study of Communism in the school system, it is scant wonder at the success of brainwashing in Korea, when a high-school teacher is not permitted to discuss capitalism v. Communism . . . ROBERT D. BEACH Carmel, Indiana...
When the men in the Kremlin brought the gigantic Stalin-idol crashing down last month, many Western observers immediately looked to Red China as the place where the demise of "Big Brother" might have its most subversive effect. To date, however, there is scant evidence that "Little Brother" Mao Tse-tung has suffered at all from his sudden relegation to the status of an only child. This book, although written a year ago while Stalin was still God, might well be dedicated to any die-hard anti-Communists who still expect to hear momentarily that the Peking regime has been...
...knows in advance that proposals which are fully adequate to the evolving world situation are likely to precipitate not only a difficult public debate but a costly, deeprooted, bitter division within his own party in Congress. The fact that he can count on a bipartisan majority will be scant consolation if the biggest part of that majority is provided by his pilitical opponents...
...Foundation. Washington's schools were integrated in the fall of 1954. Before that they were divided into two groups: Division 1 for the white schools, Division II for the colored. There was scant connection between them. The average Negro high school class was seven students larger than classes in the white high schools. Few Negro high schools could afford to offer the special remedial courses which students coming to Washington from the South urgently needed. One reading test given to eighth-grade Negro students found them lagging behind white students by roughly three years...
Radcliffe's Tenley Albright will open her defense of the World Skating championship today. Her chief opposition will come once again from 16-year-old Carol Heiss who lost to Tenley by a scant margin in the Winter Olympics...