Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access" to education, justice, and, above all, self-government...
...attempted to carry off souvenirs, according to members of the police detail who chaperone the public through its roped-off route, and few question the President's right to the privacy of his own bedroom. In Andrew Jackson's day, the public had free access to all parts of the White House. According to one account of Jackson's Inauguration Day: "High and low, old and young, black and white, poured in one solid column into this spacious mansion. Here was the corpulent epicure grunting and sweating for breath-the dandy wishing he had no toes...
Case No. 39 was a Signal Corps civilian typist, with no access to classified documents. He was charged with being "closely associated" with his father, who had been reported to be a Communist. The employee said that he himself disapproved of Communism, indicated that partly because of politics, he never got along well with his father...
Hallowed Deaths. In his novels of that period, Malraux preached that men's willingness to die for a cause gave their lives meaning. "Men who are joined together in a common hope, a common quest, have access, like men whom love unites, to regions they could never reach left to themselves." The problem, said Malraux, is human dignity. "Man can have no pride if he doesn't know why he is working." His heroes die, but each dies for "what in his time was charged with the deepest meaning and the greatest hope ... a death saturated with this...
...Next day he was conducted to the House of Peers, reported back that he had, in the Commons' name, "laid claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require . . ." From 1399 to 1510, six Speakers had lost their heads for presenting such claims-hence the traditional show of reluctance to assume the chair...