Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though many small-fry deviationists have crumpled before Mao Tse-tung's firing squads. Red China's masters in 30 years of party organization have yet to undergo a true Russian-style purge. Yet there were mighty stresses and strains in seizing and subduing a vast and unwieldy country of 600 million hungry people. Peking's first solution of the problem was to divide China into six administrative regions, all but one of them in the charge of a first-line army general. The six leaders were, in effect, local warlords bound together by Communist discipline...
Starting next year, applicants to the Business School will no longer have to undergo personal interviews with admission officials, it was announced yesterday...
...progress: Capehart's, Byrd's, and another run by the Administration itself. Eased off the front pages by the McCarthy-Army proceedings, all three were left on the fire at a slow boil. It was evident that the Administration's housing bills would be held up, and might undergo serious revisions. Outside of this, not even the boldest of political prophets would be willing to conjecture on what the ultimate effects of the FHA scandals will...
...turn out 27,000 officers a year for a 143-wing Air Force. With authorized strength down to 120 wings by last summer, the Air Force had to slash its program, abruptly announced that commissions henceforth would go to 1) engineering students, 2) those cadets qualified and willing to undergo flight training and three years' active duty. (Many cadets were reluctant to fly.) Result: nearly 5,000 of this year's 13,000 graduates will get no commissions, instead have the option of enlisting in the Air Force for two years or waiting for the draft...
Three undergraduates were injured yesterday afternoon in an explosion that rocked the Mallinckrodt chemistry laboratories. One will undergo an operation this morning...