Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week rejected a $1340 grant received under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act. Their action dramatizes wide-spread objection to the clause requiring every loan applicant to file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional means...
...from infallible; often two chartists will arrive at opposite conclusions. Therefore, when a stock attracts Tabell's attention by its price movements, he sends aides to see the company and check on the "fundamentals" of earnings, sales and dividends. He will not recommend a stock unless the fundamentals support the pattern on his charts...
...Castro disappointed many who had anticipated an inflammatory address, but his conviction, humor, and obvious anxiety to persuade his listeners soon won their support. The Cuban leader's frequently disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...
...great applause, he concluded that the revolutionary government, which could never have gained power without the support of the people, was for "neither bread without freedom nor freedom without bread...
...loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide by working at Dreamland to save him. And throughout the theme repeats itself: innocent girl must enter, hardened woman must stay, old prostitute must leave...