Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straggling confusion, a column of 500 determined college students wound up Capitol Hill one day last week and trooped into the House Office Building. The homemade placards the marchers carried proclaimed in screaming yellow their mission: "U.S. Students Demand Passage of the Marshall Plan...
...Their demand was superfluous. There had never been any doubt about voting some large-scale aid to Europe. Last week, after seven months of planning, seven weeks of committee hearings, eleven days of grueling debate, passage in the Senate was already assured. The climax had come at exactly 5:05 p.m. the day before, when Ohio's Senator Robert Taft planted his feet squarely behind his Senate desk, thrust both thumbs into his pants pockets, and launched into a 90-minute attack on ERP's most vulnerable point: its size...
...Lake Success last week, Chile filed charges against the Soviet Union with the U.N.; accused it of threatening world peace by instigating the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. The U.S. announced it would support the Chilean demand for a Security Council debate...
Hebrew Union's new president" is no dogmatist in theology: "I am more interested in hearts than in hats or ham," he says. "As never before, mankind needs pioneers of the spirit. . . . The sense and hope of survival for us and mankind bespeak and demand an all-enveloping passion on our part for the principles and precepts of ... an American Judaism, strengthening and being strengthened by the aims ... of the colonial fathers who called this country 'the new Jerusalem...
Such a spontaneous movement from the rank-and-file clearly indicates the popular demand to fill the social vacuum in the House system. The "idea" of the Houses--intellectual contact between faculty and students--suffered greatly when tutorial was beaten to its knees a couple of years ago. The companion theory that a House should bring students with common interests together, has also been almost submerged. Many of the difficulties arose from the war, and the Houses are only slowly feeling their way back to solid ground with such activities as the Eliot House seminars and the language tables...