Word: adds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the vacuum which remains can be filled with an organized ethical system, there intervenes a period in which conduct of any sort passes unchecked and uncensured. To add to this, the student is encouraged to question critically all of his ideas and assumptions, initially an extremely destructive process. He sees himself as not yet fully adult, and hence not responsible for his actions in any sense that could be termed permanent, much less eternal...
...violence that the Communist organizers made their gravest publicity error. You may recall, for instance, the American girl who was struck by a Communist guard when she was trying to add Department of Agricultural reports to the "people's literature" at an agricultural meeting...
...deals with the work rules-varying from one mill to another-that govern such matters as the number of men needed for a particular task and the extent of management's authority to shift men around. Charging that the rules now foster "featherbedding and loafing," industry wants to add to Section 2-B a provision that "nothing in this contract shall prevent management from improving the operating efficiency of its plants...
...attempting to add up the credits-and the debits-of the Khrushchev trip, no one could arrive at a flat sum. The West has many times before received promises from Communism and seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco...
Time for Action. Orde Wingate came into the world violently (his mother was near to death in childbirth), lived violently, died violently. He had an intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence...