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McDonald pointed out that any installment payment proposal for education would have to consider that students are sometimes afraid that by borrowing they commit themselves to immediate repayment. "I would be afraid of a loan program that in effect governed a student's professional planning." McDonald said, advocating that the University maintain in a flexible repayment system based on income tax returns. "We may have to convert some loans to scholarships, after the fact," he added...
...there an international crisis? Stalin was slow to commit Russia to foreign adventures, slower still to back down once he had committed Soviet prestige. Nikita Khrushchev with one brash threat against Turkey had launched a war scare that set the whole world's nerves on edge. Last week, bouncing into a reception at (of all places) the Turkish embassy, he called the crisis off between gulps of champagne: "Let him be damned who wants war. There will...
...morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...
faubus (faw-bus), v.i.; FAUBUSED, FAUBUSING. 1. To commit an error of enormous magnitude through malice and ignorance. 2. To make a serious error, to commit a fault through stupidity or mental confusion. Syn. Blunder, err, bollix...
...England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person. Virtue and heavenly blessings are sold here; you may even buy the privilege of sinning in future...