Word: abolishing
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...does it give Congress or the courts the right to abolish segregation...
...Mediocrity Magnified." CinemaScope will abolish, at one stroke, the art of the film as it has been practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch a helpless infant in its claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms...
...these are very small matters. The surprising balance of the estimate is refreshing and is a true picture. This article should help to focus the eyes of thinking people on the importance of stimulating the move to eliminate racial discrimination and as the first and most important step to abolish segregation which is maintained by an outrageous and outmoded code of laws in most of the Southern states...
...Meaning Umberto II. In 1946 Victor Emmanual III abdicated the throne to Crown Prince Umberto. But Umberto went into exile near Lisbon only a month later, after Italians voted (6 to 5) to abolish the monarchy...
...death penalty. Similarly Communists will back the abolition of capital punishment not as humane principle, but to favor anti-social members of their own party like the Rosenbergs. Before the Civil War, slavery abolitionists also favored capital punishment abolition, and their belligerence convinced many that they would abolish the structure of society as well if given the opportunity. It is no wonder then that opponents of capital punishment are at times suspect in the public mind...