Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in another Draconian attempt to curb the pressure on prices, Castello Branco decreed that no union may be granted more than one wage boost a year-a blow to organized labor, which has been getting multiple raises yearly. By such stubborn measures, Castello Branco and his able Minister of Planning, Roberto Campos, at least hope to hold inflation this year to a mere 35%-which, if it can be done, will indeed be a miracle of sorts...
...fight inflation by urging both labor, in its wage demands, and industry, in its pricing, to hold to annual increases of no more than 3.2%. Kennedy used them as a talking point; Johnson attempted to turn them into gospel. Last week, the guideposts were shredded and, ironically, the tearing blow had been delivered by none other than L.B.J...
...discussion. In 1964 the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Frankfurt, Germany, chose as its theme "Come Creator Spirit." Last June the first national ecumenical meeting of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council of Churches, to be held in 1968, which has picked as its subject God's promise of resurrection to all men through the Holy Spirit: "Behold, I make all things...
...effectiveness of international justice has been dealt a crippling blow by this decision, and it will take years of rebuilding before the label of White Justice can be disproved. For while the United States and Soviet representatives dissented, all the other white judges voted in a bloc against the Africans to throw the case out of court...
...statute--"But what is the wording?...It will mean what the words lay!...It may be possible to take it. Or avoid it. Have we a copy of the Bill?" Enough laws are still planted in England. More thinks, for him to stand whatever winds may blow. The sources that tell us of More's life--his books, his letters, the life by son-in-law Roper, those by the mysterious "Ro: Ba:" and by Nicholas Harpsfield, the records of his trial, stray accounts of his execution--these sources show the truth of this view. A point...