Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Villagers who might have watched the twentieth century pass by are now eagerly changing their feudal conditions. Farmers learn to plant rice in rows, rather than scatter it with no plan. Some villages begin cooperative stores and libraries...
...Foreign Operations Administration has launched a new program to promote U.S. investment abroad. It has already compiled and distributed to businessmen a list of industrial projects needed in various countries. To augment the list, FOA is training a force of 16 business-school graduates, who will scatter to the globe's corners looking for investment opportunities...
...compact, hard-hitting mobility; well-balanced for defense but, in the German tradition, built for offense. Each armored division will have twice as many tanks as the German Panzer division of World War II, and immensely more firepower. Set up to operate efficiently as a single force, yet scatter quickly into small units and thus present a poor target for atomic attack. Arms: The U.S. has already stockpiled, mostly in the U.S., the bulk of Germany's first needs, $500 million worth of guns, ammunition, tanks and planes. By 1956, Germans hope to be making their own light arms...
...Scatter-gun, wholesale accusations are not the way to protect academic freedom. Instead, the universities should fight each case, individually, as it comes up. In the pages of this issue is some record of cases that have been fought by administrations, but many more that have not been. The universities, must realize that the perfect case will never come. There will not be situations in which a man's guilt or innocence is so clear-cut or that a choice is easy. If a university will refuse to fight until it finds conclusive evidence of a man's innocence...
...little colony. Back at his headquarters in the Indian town of Karwar, 46-year-old Peter Alvares. president of the National Congress of Goa and mastermind of the unarmed invasion to "liberate" the colony, insisted that all this was according to plan: he had instructed his liberators to scatter among the people of Goa and preach freedom until captured...