Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within two years, he and Farel were expelled from Geneva for their extreme doctrines, but three years later the city's council called them back again. And until he died at 55, dyspeptic and exhausted, Calvin ruled Geneva with the same uncompromising rigor with which he ruled himself...
...Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow up on one of the cases he had been observing, he would leave his car in the garage and walk five miles to the hospital and back...
Died. Eugene McAuliffe, 92, president (1923-44), board chairman (1944-47) of Union Pacific Coal Co., a leader of the coal industry who always considered the welfare of his miners: he mechanized his mines without dropping a man, sent Chinese laborers who proved unsuitable for the mines back to China at company expense; in Omaha...
...husband when she visited his home in 1935 to advise him on interior decoration. Ward put her on one of his most spirited horses-"He wanted to see if I could stay on. I just decided I would. I was like a burr on the horse's back. But he finally decided that if a horse couldn't get rid of me, he couldn't either." They were married...
...inevitable. A shear operator at a Jones & Laughlin tin mill shrugged his broad shoulders and said: "The men don't want a strike, and they don't want raises. They don't know what the union does, but they have blind faith. They'll back the union so its position won't be weakened...