Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passage. On the other hand, crafty Pat McCarran could still do a lot of road-blocking if he chose, and the Senate was already in a squeeze to get through before the scheduled end-of-the-month adjournment. To show that they planned to stir up a big storm, McCarran and his two chief Republican allies, Indiana's Jenner and Idaho's Welker, had dropped 70 amendments to the refugee bill into Senate hoppers...
...denounced a passage from Stoddard's book. The Meaning of Intelligence: "Manmade concepts such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions." Unitarian Stoddard protested that, taken as a whole, his book urged a "return to religion." Gradually, the storm blew over, but it was never forgotten...
When George Ebey first arrived in Houston a year ago to be deputy superintendent of schools, the Houston Post reported: "He chuckled at reports circulating here that he will be a storm center, a controversial educator." George Ebey had chuckled too soon...
...weeks passed, the Herald & Express went right on hammering this theme. Then came the news that Stoddard had called on his colleague, Superintendent Will Crawford of San Diego, to administer the plan. "Crawford," cried the Herald & Express, "was the center of a storm in San Diego over the UNESCO-teaching there." That seemed evidence enough that Stoddard is trying "to swing UNESCO and 'One World' back into the Los Angeles school system...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Storm Warnings, with Robert Stack...