Word: slant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Party tics of other tenured professors may well lead them to slant their teaching to a party line, especially in the social sciences. Yet the AAU would not fire a dogmatic Marxist or Freudian, both of whom blind themselves to all but a single cause; or a Catholic, whose ideas on certain subjects must change at the order of the Pope. For these beliefs are not presently dangerous to the government. But if only the threat's the thing, it is dangerously illogical to fire a CP member who has never taught threatening ideas. Moreover, any avowed Communist will...
...move has only served to heighten the ulcer-forming problems of the merchandising executive. All the old problems of daily sales reports, increased expense problems, profit responsibilities, slow selling merchandise, fashion trends, and long hours have taken on a new suburban slant. The result has been to make the retailer's job one of the toughest and most unpredictable in any field. Rapid turn overs in executive positions are the rule, not the exception...
...Four Confederate veterans are still alive: W. W. Williams of Franklin, Texas, 110; William A. Lundy of Laurel Hill, Fla., 104; Thomas E. Riddle of Austin, Texas, 106; and John Salling of Slant...
...while, all the work will have a military slant: How should vehicles be redesigned? Can camouflage be improved? What is the best way to destroy the ice under an advancing enemy? But some day, SIPRE's scientists hope to turn to more peaceful problems, for their work has practical value wherever man tries to live with snow, ice and frozen ground...
...high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...