Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Bishop James E. Walsh, 64. Bishop Walsh had continued church services after the Communist victory: he dared the Communists to persecute him along with younger missionaries, saying: "The others have done no more nor less than I." Other church folk due to come home: Levi A. Lovegren, 66, supervisor of the Baptist missionaries in western China, imprisoned since January 1951 for "espionage": Sarah Perkins and Dorothy Middleton Presbyterian missionaries to a colony of lepers at Lienhsien, imprisoned since February 1951 for "sabotage." Points of Divergence. U.S. Ambassador Johnson is now committed to move on to Point...
Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries...
Board Member: Suppose you were reinstated and found out later that your brother was involved in any one of these organizations . . . Would you come forth and tell your supervisor in this agency that your brother was connected in any one of these organizations...
...call it pot, or for a pupil to develop the annoying habit of putting the President in the White Horse or assembling stamp collisions. But phonics alone can be equally disastrous. Though a pupil might be able to read the word institute right off, says Elementary Education Supervisor Mary O'Rourke of Massachusetts, he can without other training be completely confused as to its meaning. In one case a phonics-trained girl defined it: "When two people don't know each other, you institute them...
...passed almost unnoticed, since all eyes were suddenly directed to the arrival of a flame-red, air-conditioned Buick out of which flounced Mrs. Mary Tulula ("Militant Mary") Cain, a solidly constructed 50-year-old, who edits the weekly Summit Sun. One of seven children of a railway maintenance supervisor, Mary Cain was born in a railroad camp car and has never stopped rolling ("Never seems to get tired," says her husband, a filling-station operator). Mrs. Cain made her opponents' language seem almost tolerant...