Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith, 78, was still smarting from his January defeat on the House floor, when the Rules Committee was enlarged and packed with liberal Democrats, who would assure the free flow of liberal legislation through the committee and thereby end Virginia Conservative Smith's control over the House calendar (TIME, Feb. 10). Then, Smith and his conservative committee colleagues were accused of obstructionism. Last week, as he called up the constituent bait resolutions and forced the committee liberals to vote them down, Judge Smith was setting the stage for a future time when he can accuse the liberals themselves...
Some years ago misguided radicals in Paris attempted to change the calendar. The result was the Reign of Terror...
Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner delivered an eleven-hour statement, grimly reciting the long calendar of murder. "When I stand before you, judges of Israel," cried thin, balding Hausner, "I do not want to stand alone. Here with me at this moment stand 6,000,000 prosecutors." Muffled sobbing came from the spectators. Some were so overcome that they had to rush from the court...
...decades scholars have been skeptical. Philomena's official demotion finally came as part of a long-term program, given extra impetus by Pope John XXIII, to tidy up the liturgical calendar by eliminating those saints about whom so little is known that their existence may be doubted. The Congregation of Rites indicated last week that there were more demotions to come...
Pity for Patrice. Unhappily, Gomulka -and Poland with him-seems to be moving the other way. Gone are the soaring hopes that followed Poland's famous October 1956 revolt against the Communist yoke. "October? What's that?" cracks a writer. "Our calendar now has only eleven months." For him, free expression died in 1959, when Gomulka's party men took over the Writers' Union and choked off the "deviationists" with threats and a "shortage" of newsprint...