Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberately chose Holy Week to launch, through his puppet press, a campaign for repeal of the constitutional provision stating that "the federal government supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church...
General Távora protested that he had been innocently unaware of the deal, but Governor Quadros promptly denied that. Warned by his fellow generals to get out of the race, Távora announced that he had decided not to run. Shattered, the anti-Kubitschek coalition lamely chose a substitute presidential candidate: Etelvino Lins, onetime governor of the state of Pernambuco and leader of a dissident faction of Kubitschek's own party. Meanwhile, Juscelino Kubitschek, having, duly resigned as governor of Minas Gerais, was wearing a big, confident smile...
...Inquisition. Warily checking his signals with the Pontiff. Galileo found that the Pope had only two reservations: i) the Copernican theory must be treated as a hypothesis, not as a certainty, and 2) since God was omnipotent and might create and govern the universe in any way He chose, Galileo was to put forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo abided by the Pope's injunctions, but committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue...
...threat to particular interests, like the wheat farmers. Still other oppose OTC on the ground that its adoption would surrender too much power to an international agency. The organization, however, would not have supranational powers; it would serve merely as a coordinator of international bargaining for those who chose to use it. Its rules are flexible enough to allow the United States an exemption on the importation of grain. Although OTC would be a permanent organ, it commits the United States to little more than the original General Agreement...
What was the tragic flaw? According to Professor Robinson, there were several. Policy and principle were sabotaged by personality and expediency. While F.D.R. proclaimed the bright future of the common man, mushrooming Government bureaus sapped self-reliance by nurturing security-consciousness. "The most powerful of American Presidents" chose to time vital actions of state on such cues as he could pick up at the keyhole of public opinion. Concludes Robinson: "Roosevelt's failure lay in his unsuccessful attempt to justify the means or establish the ends he had in view. This was his personal tragedy. Inasmuch as on major...