Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then it was the turn of U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Speaking solemnly, without a trace of his familiar humor, he delivered one of his best speeches since he came to the U.N. The substance of his argument was no different from the established U.S. position, but the temperate earnestness of his style impressed most listeners. He appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts...
ARTHUR S. TRACE...
Cheers for Professor Trace's findings on the differences in education in Russia and the U.S. [Nov. 17]. Pressuring many of our bright young minds, before they are ready for tackling reading, and then feeding them a diet of dull, repetitious words, is one very good reason why Johnny can't read. He doesn't want to. Give him a cross section of the human body and watch him work...
...Trace's censorious tome is eristic and demands further inquiry. His proclivity to comparing U.S.S.R. word count with U.S. vocabulary at the elementary grades is pure gallimaufry...
...Communist watchtower. Some 20 yds. beyond the barbed-wire barricade, the East Germans have hacked through the underbrush and cleared a strip of land 15 ft. wide. Later, I found that it rambled the entire length of the frontier. The purpose of the strip is to enable authorities to trace the footsteps of fleeing East Germans to determine their route, and to discipline any patrols that might let them escape. West Germans call the cleared area der Todesstreifen-the death strip...