Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors entertain the notion that traditional subject matter has any validity, they give scarcely a hint of it. They begin by outlining the "scope" of the curriculum in terms of nine "major functions of living"-"Practicing American Citizenship, Using the Tools of Communication, Developing Economic Competence, Improving Family Living, Protecting Life and Health, Building Human Relationships, Enjoying Wholesome Leisure, Satisfying Spiritual and Aesthetic Needs, and Meeting Vocational Responsibilities...
...large-corporation policy of "good citizenship and good behavior" has replaced the money-grabbing "hard business" pattern of the 1930's, Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, stated last night...
...away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking up foreign arms...
...mention a cruiser; 4) T. R. used it as a dramatic device to stir up the languid Republican National Convention in Chicago. Adds Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis: "It remained for historians later to discover that Roosevelt knew when he authorized the message that the American citizenship of Perdicaris was questionable...
...years later, in 1950, Mother Teresa received canonical sanction for her order. Today the sisters run nine day schools, 15 Sunday schools, two commercial schools, two technical schools, and seven dispensaries, which treated 49,000 patients last year. Mother Teresa has adopted Indian citizenship, and all her sisters are Indian. Their habit is the sari -to identify them with the country and because it is the most practical dress in Calcutta's humid climate. (No sister possesses more than two saris; in teaching hygiene to the poor, they are able to point out that it is possible to dress...