Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectful members of New Delhi's Rotary Club that the "vast majority of American people will not agree that Goa is part of Portugal. India should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...
With the memory of Little Rock still smoldering, it is heartening to see local government take its own action toward eliminating racial discrimination. The passage of the New York City anti-bias act is an encouraging step in removing segregation, not only for New York, but for the country. By the bill passed last Thursday, no owner of a dwelling for more than two families may refuse to rent or sell housing accommodations to any person because of his "race, color, religion, origin, or ancestry...
...Socialist bias of Nehru's political philosophy, which expressed itself two months ago in a tax on capital assets, discourages private industry, foreign and domestic. Said leading Indian Industrialist G. D. Birla: "As things stand now, there is not the slightest possibility of raising any sizable capital in India...
Last week, with La Bardot's most notorious film doing record business in Manhattan, and another set to open soon, U.S. moviegoers had a chance to see what all the European excitement is about. It adds up to a brouhaha in a bias...
Judge Davies entered the courtroom at 10 a.m., climbed the dais and engulfed himself in a padded chair several sizes too large. Immediately before him was a group of delaying motions filed by the Faubus legal battery: that Judge Davies disqualify himself on the ground of personal bias, that service of subpoenas against National Guard officers be quashed, that the case be dismissed because it should be heard by a three-judge court...