Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your description of the courageous police chief of Little Rock, one Gene Smith, who was instrumental in preventing the public expression of resentment against the institution of integration in schools there, was very impressive. He sounds much like the collaborators in World War II, France and Norway, who were helping the Germans to round up their own countrymen...
...correct. Their programing, although it may be only made up of requests, somehow seems to repeat itself every two or three hours almost record for record. While I love rock 'n' roll, it can be run into the ground, and in that respect WAPE is the chief pile driver...
...been in and out of the headlines since it conducted hard-hitting investigations in both North and South of violations of U.S. constitutional rights. This week, as Congress debated extending its life, the commission submitted a report that made it as hot an issue as civil rights itself. Chief finding: the nation is still a long way from doing right by its minorities...
...Obsession. Peking's probes into India, according to this theory, were primarily designed to seal off rebellious Tibet from outside influences, specifically to prevent any more Tibetans from escaping to India and to exclude the Indian pilgrims and traders who have long been the chief source of news from the Roof of the World. In the process, Peking was also reinforcing its claim to fringe areas of India that Chinese maps have for many years shown as part of China...
...defeat finally reached Vientiane, something like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government...