Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
This paradox of the Twentieth Century--the mushrooming of good and evil side by side--is easily illustrated. On the one hand, it has been a century of extraordinary material and scientific progress, of a remarkable lengthening of the human life span, of a widening of access to the world's cultural heritage from the very few to many more. It has been a half century of the emancipation of women, of the growth of democracy, of Wilsonian idealism and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...
Crane and DeGugliemo both expressed the belief that the checking and controlling of Communists was strictly an F.B.I. job and that there is not reason to believe that the City Council will be given proference over a Congressional Committee in access to secret files. "One of the greatest perils if such lists were given out," the Mayor said yesterday, "would be the possibility for Communists to enter the names of their enemies and instigate the greatest witch-hunt in history...
...suspended its hapless announcer. "To make fun of people's ignorance and to exploit their confusion," warned the Ministry of Communications, ". . . is not in keeping with the educational, artistic or cultural aims of the nation." Henceforth, it was decreed, all radio programs in which the public would have access to the microphone are banned...
...Quad and began to gather before Cabot Hall. Greeted only by water poured from Cabot windows, the berserk Yardlings then marched around the Quad ignoring girls eagerly hanging from Moors Hall windows. Some gathered on the terrace of Barnard but closed doors and windows repulsed their attempts to gain access to the Hall...