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Word: starkest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they should be removed," the Board has said. The Superintendent of Schools has been granted a considerable amount of discretion in deciding whether or not to require teachers to name their associates; but once he does decide to request information about others form a teacher, that teacher faces the starkest of alternatives--either he must make the decision to inform or he follows the dictates of conscience at the risk of almost certain dismissal from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informers' Dilemma: Conscience or Committee? | 6/17/1955 | See Source »

Communist ideology and the danger of atomic weapons present the starkest challenge which democracy has ever faced, Holmes asserted. The duty of educators of the nation is to show students the roots of these problems and to offer solutions for them, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holmes Declares Hope of Freedom Lies in Education | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether. The color is excellent, though it is not clear why color is needed; the exterior shots are mostly of snowscapes marked with black exclamations of pine, and the interiors are in starkest black and white (Good v. Evil). To suggest, perhaps, the eternal travail of these opposites, the picture has been made as eternal as possible (102 minutes). When at last the moviegoer dares hope it will end, one of the characters looks him square in the eye and announces: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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