Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
...ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre oil concession, a 780,000-acre coffee plantation that grows a full one-third of Paraguay's crop, plus other valuable concessions...
...similar Constitutional grounds, he rejects Federal aid to education ("no powers regarding education were given to the federal government"), for agriculture ("No power over agriculture was given to any branch of the federal government") and all welfare programs ("The government must begin to withdraw from a whole series of programs that are outside its constitutional mandate--from social welfare programs, education, public power, agriculture, public housing, urban renewal and all the other activities that can be better performed by lower levels of government or by private institutions or by individuals.") Goldwater goes on to denounce the graduated income...
Last spring, exactly 95 years after the Confederacy died there, Negro high school students tried to use the whites-only library. Danville (pop. 35,000) promptly padlocked the place along with the smaller Negro branch two blocks away. When a federal judge ordered the library reopened on an integrated basis, the voters in a special election decided to keep it closed. A scheme to open a "private" library for whites proved impractical since the books belonged to the public, including Negro taxpayers. Danville has no real bookstore, and some of the citizenry began to miss books. They pressured the city...
...South Africa, declaring, "I am back for good!" But he had not counted on Premier Hendrik Verwoerd's determination to put down critics he found troublesome, even if the critic was a bishop. Forty-two hours after Bishop Reeves landed, detectives, led by the chief of the special branch, showed up at his simple room in the Priory of St. Benedict and handed him a deportation order signed by the Minister of Interior. He was given half an hour to pack. Reeves was assured that he could consult a lawyer before departing, but before his aides could get through...