Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's naive "neutrality" serves as a reminder of how much hard political work needs to be done before Asia is in a position to defend itself against Communism. That the U.S. sees patience as a necessary element in the process is evident from the nation's sympathy toward Nehru's request for U.S. grain...
...year-old lay leader of the Catholics in his village, was ordered to pluck out his own beard strand by strand. When this process seemed too slow, his torturers burned it off, searing his face with a torch. After severe beatings, "the judge asked Li: 'Will you still be a Christian and act as head of the community?' He answered simply: 'As long as I breathe.' The judge gestured to a soldier near by, and Li Wan-fu was shot through the head...
Easy to Fool. Under half a dozen aliases, buxom Mrs. Walker, an amateur miner who liked to be called Rimrock Annie, had a long history of falling on slippery floors, being bowled over by cars, being knocked down by people. In the process, she apparently fooled many doctors and quite a few insurance companies...
Harvard's current problem is to get that reasonable proportion of victories without giving up any principles in the process. To do this, we should play only teams with the same amateur standards as our own. We should keep admission and scholarship policy in line with Harvard's educational standards. How this can be done will be the subject of future editorials in this series...
...projected plant, he will use uranium supplied by AEC, charge AEC a fee for turning it into plutonium. The tremendous heat, now a waste byproduct of the process, will be used to run a steam generating plant. By charging a fee for making the plutonium, Thomas thinks that the cost of producing electricity can be brought down to current commercial rates. By using the cheap electric power to manufacture chemicals, he thinks Monsanto can afford to make plutonium at a lower cost than in AEC's own plants...