Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that "they began getting colder" toward himself and to earlier suggestions he had made for "democratization" of the Soviet satellite countries. However, he "did not take this too tragically," because he saw that "this was not the attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them all out, Tito was willing to give his blessing to a tough character named Erno Gero whom the Russians wanted to fob off as a "Titoist" to ease the discontent in Hungary. It was Gero who first...
...museums and the frigate Constitution, there are dozens of graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, the King's Chapel Cemetery. The burial ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping faintly from them, are still marked by the bullets of the British soldiers who besieged the city...
...some opportunity must be left for discussion. Thus television would seem inappropriate when applied to section meetings, i.e. if used to show a section meeting to non-participating students outside the section. Most courses could probably use some combination of televised lectures and "live" section meetings to clarify or expand the lecture material...
...working for advanced degrees in everything from microbiology to Judaic studies. "We will add professional schools.'' says Sachar, "when we can be sure of making them measure up to the highest standards." But however much Brandeis grows, Sachar wants its students to be a true cross section of the U.S. population. "Diversification," says he, "is necessary if we are to fulfill the purpose for which the school was founded-to be a university where, at last, the Jews are hosts, and not guests as we have always been before...
...years later won a battlefield commission in France to become the A.E.F.'s youngest second lieutenant. Later he turned to newspapering ("I needed hot cakes"), wound up covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted for fact...