Word: watson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College room rents will rise to a relatively high level if a single-rent system is adopted, Dean Watson said yesterday. A rent adjustment mechanism built into the plan would lessen the increase for scholarship students, however...
Under the present system of 27 different rent levels, Watson explained, "many students are happy to pay above-average prices for their rooms." If a standard rent were adopted, this extra revenue would be lost. In this case, the Houses would be forced to set the single-rent level above their "break-even" point...
...declared the focus of Chinese hatred and resentment. With an ignorant arrogance that could have disastrous consequences for the world, Peking's rulers dismiss the U.S. as a "paper tiger," pooh-pooh the U.S. H-bomb. Four years ago Red China's War Minister confidently told Sam Watson, former chairman of the British Labor Party: "Even if 200 million of us were killed, we would still have 400 million left." Mao himself makes no bones of his ambition to "drive the U.S. out of East Asia," recently told a Brazilian journalist: "We must attack the tiger again...
...varied between "awe and anxiety." The vast geographical vacuum between the two countries is being competitively filled-by Khrushchev's reclamation of the Central Asian "virgin lands," and by China's intensive colonization of Sinkiang province, once a Soviet zone of influence. When Britain's Sam Watson forecast to Khrushchev that the Chinese would one day flood either north into Siberia or south into Australia, Khrushchev's reply was: "I'm all in favor of Australia...
...Dean Watson, with whom the Council leaders discussed their plans Wednesday, suggested that the Dean's office might be able to help the Council financially by sharing the cost of reports or by giving part-time secretarial assistance, but that direct financial aid in any significant amount was unlikely...