Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...union with France. To the open threats of some army officers that they will revolt if Algeria is lost, De Gaulle replied that he would call a popular referendum, if necessary, to put through his Algerian decision. More than that, he threatened to dissolve Parliament and, as a last resort, take up the dictatorial powers open to him under his constitution's Article 16 if extremists stand...
Approximately 2400 students responded to Thursday's poll, most voting against the other alternatives listed. To the question "What is your response to elimination of seconds of meat?" 63 per cent circled the answer "intolerable," and 24 per cent, "acceptable only as a last resort...
Last week newspaper readers hung over every detail of a new thriller that promised to follow the classic tradition. Its setting was the town of Rhyl, a drab Welsh working-class seaside resort. There, one rainy day last May, 29-year-old Leslie Harvey, taxi driver, decided to clean out an old, locked closet on the upstairs landing in the shabby boardinghouse on West Kinmel Street owned by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Harvey, 65. She had been under treatment for a cancerous stomach tumor, and he planned to have the house spruced up as a surprise for her when...
Indians & Doorbells. Hansen has no quarrel with progressive education's contention that problem solving is more interesting than rote learning. But he thinks progressives underestimate the pride that children take in acquiring intellectual skills. Instead of directly teaching the skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...
...strength of in Japan today. Nevertheless assassination is significant as an indicator of what could happen in a lacking a parliamentarian tradition the sense that we described above thermore, there is the possibility the assassination may lead to the of extremism both within leftist and the rightist groups, would resort to violence to combat other, rather than submitting themselves to a patient process of parliamentarianism...