Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English. Belgian-born Theologian Gommar De Pauw, 46, of Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland likes it so little that he has organized a "Catholic Traditionalist Movement," which recently delivered a manifesto to the nation's bishops, charging that liturgical reform is part of a scheme to "Protestantize" Catholic worship and doctrine...
Millis manages to obscure the crucial role that this consensus plays in his scheme by insisting that he would work no basic change on the international system. What evidence does he adduce then, to support his optimism about this consensus? First he cites the past decade of peace among the major powers and concludes that violence has been permanently localized. Second, he points to the ability of the two major alliances to settle peacefully their internal disputes, and extrapolates from their success to a vision of world stability. In both cases he refuses to admit that the presence of nuclear...
...idle, and the Portuguese press has begun to warn that tens of thousands of marriageable women face futures of spinsterhood. Salazar hoped to stem the tide last year by allowing a limited number of laborers to emigrate to France legally. Some 20,000 applicants left under the new labor scheme; but nearly 30,000 others took the illegal road with the smugglers...
...Social Relations Department employs the same scheme of thesis and orals. Kenneth J. Gergen, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said he though the system was "an excellent idea." The oral exam, he commented, "gives the student a much closer contact with a number of Faculty members who carefully review his work...
...headlines for twelve solid days in an extraordinary national preoccupation with what the Daily Mail called "the most celebrated eagle of his day." Britons sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain's wideawake malted-milk firm rushed out advertisements...