Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privileged status in a land of 3,000,000 Arabs. By last week the points at issue between the two sides had narrowed down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure was about to give in, when an irate lobby representing French planters (the colons) and civil servants in Tunisia brought their...
Dictator Fulgencio Batista is a shrewd politician who knows when to give an inch to save the ruler. For two months he blocked a congressional move to grant amnesty to political prisoners and exiles, even though the mood of the country was clearly in favor of it. Last week Batista gave in gracefully, told his majorities in Congress to push through a sweeping amnesty bill...
This kind of cold but necessary practicality, common to the battlefield but startling to civilians, shows up in what civil-defense men are calling "triage" (pronounced try-idge).* Explained Dr. Grant Taylor, who directed the Hiroshima damage survey and served as a judge of the Houston-Beaumont test: "You need somebody out front to say 'No-not you, but you.' He'd probably have to carry a revolver on his hip. If a man is 80% burned, he's almost sure to die, no matter what you do for him. If he's 10% burned...
...this sudden change in policy, the Defense Department has probably answered most of the criticism leveled at it for the past year, especially from land grant colleges...
...main criticism was that students of land grant colleges, where ROTC is compulsory for two years, were often discriminated against by this old oath. If a student put down on his questionnaire that he had belonged to a subversive group, he was deprived of his uniform, but was forced to take a similar "military training" course by himself...