Word: developing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...current Advanced Placement program is an anormaly. "Dean May said last night. The program was set up, he said to encourage high schools and prep. schools to develop advanced placement courses...
...private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because
Bond: We should develop greater unity in the black community. There ought to be at least a community-wide consensus of what ought to be done, politically, socially, economically and educationally. In Atlanta, we're going to have two black candidates running in the same congressional district. Two black candidates can only hurt the prospect of one's being elected...
...last week's border clashes were to develop into an all-out war between Cambodia's 37,000-man army and the better-armed, better-organized Communist troops, a slaughter would probably ensue. Cambodia could call on the Americans and South Vietnamese, but that would almost certainly plunge the country-like Laos-inextricably into the agonizing morass of the Viet Nam War. "In no case would I envisage asking any of our neighbors-Thailand, Laos, South Viet Nam-for assistance," Sirik Matak told Pines. "To ask others to help us militarily would destroy the independence and neutrality that...
Placed unobtrusively among the other notices that appeared in the columns of the Government publication Commerce Business Daily last week was an intriguing appeal. The U.S. Department of Transportation was calling for proposals to develop equipment that could spot and quickly identify "dynamite and other explosive vapors diffusing out of closed baggage." The implication of the notice was plain. Alarmed by the recent rash of bombings, on the ground and in the air, the Government is stepping up its efforts to encourage the design and manufacture of an effective bomb detector...