Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bonn also turned down the Egyptian demand to buy more Egyptian cotton; West Germany's textile factories still seem to get as much Egyptian cotton as they need by buying at cut-rate prices from the Soviet-bloc countries, which got the cotton from Egypt in payment for Red arms to Nasser...
...difficult to see how students can give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign-language teaching starts out well, ends badly: "The elective Spanish courses offered to the more able students beginning at the seventh-grade level seem to be well presented as a living language. The senior high school courses seem to be presented more mechanically with greater emphasis on meeting college-entrance requirements...
...live ventures, WNTA introduced a weekly Art Ford's Jazz Party in which such top-ranked musicians as Trombonist Wilbur de Paris and Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell got together in an empty studio for a genuinely informal jam session that made the big networks' jazz spectaculars seem pretentious and overorganized...
...hands. Says one of his contemporaries: "He never had any trouble having a good time. He was a good dancer. He was one of the most congenial boys in school." But Van was also as much a maverick in smalltown Texas as he was later to seem on the international concert circuit. Childhood and adolescence, outside his family, he remembers as "a living hell." He had reached his full 6 ft. 4 in. (size 12 shoes) by the time he was 14, and he was excruciatingly selfconscious; he is still convinced that he has "no looks." More important...
...time. Reason: the baby's "addiction" is physiological, not psychic, can be cured by sedative drugs. To prevent emotional ties that could make the "addiction" psychic, the first move is to take the child from its mother. Best treatment is administering opiates or tranquilizers (Thorazine and reserpine seem most effective) in gradually diminishing amounts over a period of days or weeks. This cuts the mortality rate to as little as 25% from up to 93% reported for untreated babies...