Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Value of Marx. If a nation's mere itch for independence, and not its willingness to follow a democratic way of life, was to be Acheson's touchstone of American aid, then some radical changes in U.S. thinking were called for. Was the U.S. ready to follow him? By Acheson's definition, presumably Franco's Spanish dictatorship was entitled to help. And how about Communist Tito? No longer was the State Department talking about winning him over to the Western orbit. In fact, the State Department was now saying that Tito is more valuable...
...summer his grandfather, a retired whaling captain who lived outside New Bedford, took him sailing in his catboat, taught him how to tie sailor's knots and to eat salt pork (anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
...last week, with the salty comments from unfriendly quarterdecks rumbling in his ears, Captain Brown swung back onto the only course every Navy skipper is expected to follow. "In my opinion," Brown said, "I, and I alone, bear sole responsibility for the grounding of the Missouri. As captain of the ship it was my duty to keep her safe and secure. I didn't do it ... Despite all the numerous shortcomings of others ... I could have, and should have, kept the ship in deep water...
Each group will perform three original interpretations. A master class conducted by Ann Coakley, Senya Hamlin, and Dolly Kinsman, dance instructresses at Pembroke, Radcliffe, and Jackson, respectively, will follow the performance...
...town meeting on "Campus Community and Human Rights," the theme of the institute, will be the first event of the afternoon. Panel discussions of Discrimination, Student-administration Relations, and economic Barriers to Education will follow the town meeting...