Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buddhists are preparing for the task of propagating their faith in the West. A special college is now operating in Rangoon and a center in Colombo to train missionaries. A report of the British Missionaries Societies to the British Council of Churches last week warned Christians that "Buddhism has been roused by the recent celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, by the meeting of the [Sixth World Buddhist] Council in Rangoon, and also by the deep fear in Asia of [nuclear] war . . . Buddhist leaders are calling Buddhists to support a world mission to save...
...South's colleges and universities no longer have to spread themselves thin trying to cover the whole academic waterfront. In 1951 the South had no real graduate-nursing program. The University of North Carolina had a school for public health nursing, but there was still no place to train psychiatric nurses, administrators, teachers and supervisors. Through the board's work, six campuses in six states now have nursing schools, each of which concentrates on one specialty...
...cats-in the little closed-in world of his backyard. As he watches her from behind a curtain, she becomes a half-real apparition every man has known: "She was the girl seen for a moment on the street, or in a bus, in the park or in the train, anywhere that made her unattainable . . . Her one important quality is her passing. Her merit is anonymity. If you speak to her she vanishes...
American officers will train Saudi army, navy and air personnel, both in the United States and in Saudi Arabia...
...loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson stubbornly set out on foot to keep a date with his girl 30 miles away in Amarillo, staggered to within four miles of the city's outskirts in the black night, died...