Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robertson lets his confusion seep into his conception of the academic principles of his own University. He wants the Class of '29 to finance an alumni "watchdog Committee" which would bring professors' "socialistic and communistic" views into the arena of public debate, whereupon teachers would either change their ideas or change their jobs. But he forgets there already is such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls...
...tactics of the old Hitler youth. They noticed that BDJ did not stop with the Reds, but also attacked the Socialist youth. BDJ was secretive about its membership and refused to explain how it financed its recruiting and propaganda campaigns. Last May Frankfurt police discovered BDJ buckoes toting truncheons, whereupon Georg August Zinn, the Socialist Minister President of Hesse, decided then & there to have a closer look...
...dark little girl gave a sudden angry scream, whereupon blue trousers shouted, "It's mine, it's mine-I had it first." Her voice shook with tears...
...China. He gives a rare inside view of U.S. diplomacy's bias in the period of the ill-starred Marshall mission. Caldwell was directed to prepare a confidential report on Communist propaganda in China. He found it viciously anti-American, and said so ("I was very naive"), whereupon a Washington cable rebuked him for maliciously disturbing U.S.-Russian relations...
...made the debating team in his freshman year. The night before the Big Debate with Notre Dame, the coach called him aside and told him bluntly: "Sheen, you're absolutely the worst speaker I ever heard." Whereupon he stood Sheen in a corner, took one paragraph from his prepared speech and made Sheen repeat it for an hour. Then he said: "Do you know what's wrong with you?" Sheen thought hard and said: "I'm not natural...