Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout India last week there was an increasingly articulate protest against the leadership-or lack of it-of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Solferino alongside Sardinia's little Victor Emmanuel II, who two years later became the first king of a united Italy. Off went the imperial message to Paris-"Great battle, great victory!"-though it had been such a blood bath that a Swiss traveler, Henri Dunant, shocked by the lack of medical facilities, hastily set up the beginnings of what became the International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself), but De Gaulle was happy to invoke the memories...
...made it to a ledge 165 yards inside the aqueduct. After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman retrieved Gigo, weak, hungry, 13 lbs. lighter but unharmed. The grand gesture cost the city of Salzburg...
...rule is a strange mixture of regimentation, brutality and neglect. It seems less rigid than Chinese-style mobilization, mixing lip service to lofty mottoes with inefficient bureaucracy and shrugging apathy. The people don't get-along with the imported Chinese technicians, displaying, according to Ho, "a lack of responsibility and a poor spirit of internationalism...
...should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering Professor Henry Hartig praised "the discipline and memorizing" that Tommy's instruction involves compared with the public schools' tendency "to make things fun at whatever expense...