Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results in the overseas territories were as astonishing. Only French Guinea, in the control of tough anti-Gaullist Premier Sekou Toure, voted no. Senegal, Niger, even supposedly sullen Madagascar came through with thumping oui majorities...
...necessity for new elections has been obvious since April, when the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League split and Nu accepted Communist support to avoid parliamentary defeat. That split, and the concessions it caused Nu to make to Burma's Communists, also threatened to open the way for the Communists to achieve more at the polls than they had ever won in years of fitful jungle revolt...
...SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic computers to guide 2,000-m.p.h. missiles such as the U.S. Bomarc. The tough-minded decision left the proud R.C.A.F. with little future as a combat flying force. Its role will be that of a missile operator, plus such auxiliary jobs as anti-submarine patrol and air transport...
...Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...