Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Khrushchev met Eisenhower at the President's retreat in the Maryland hills, Soviet propagandists have been making great play with what they call "the spirit of Camp David," a 1959 model to replace the spirit of Geneva and the Bandung spirit. The formula is simple: appropriate a place name where talks were held but agreements not reached, then invoke it to imply common agreement of whatever you are for, or to deplore whatever you dislike...
...only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation, outlived her surgeon by ten years-until the dawn of the anesthetic era. McDowell's colleagues at first scoffed at what they dismissed as a backwoodsman's tall tale. Not until 1827 did the University of Maryland recognize him. with an honorary degree...
From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman...
Since most students aim to build up credit for Stateside colleges, only 500 have actually graduated. But more graduates are on the way. Maryland conducts full-scale commencements in Heidelberg (and Tokyo), with caps and gowns, a heady speech by the Governor of Maryland...
...overseas faculty, Maryland hires at least 100 new teachers annually. Most are professors on leaves or sabbaticals, lured by adventure or a chance for research. Little else draws them: families-in-residence are discouraged and classes follow the troops. During his year in the program, a lecturer (the same title for all) can end up teaching in four or five countries. In his ten years, the program's Dean Ray Ehrensberger has flown almost a million miles...