Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despairing hedonism, this stern doctrine had the opposite effect; Geneva became a city in which everyone was trying to prove himself chosen for salvation, and Calvin set up a city administration that was designed to keep Genevans on the straight and narrow. In groups of ten, Geneva's citizens were summoned to swear fealty to a 21-article confession of faith; church and state had separate powers, but in Calvin's theocracy no citizen of the state could be outside the authority of the church. The most famous of his opponents, Michael Servetus, was burned at the stake...
...John Foster Dulles was a hero's tribute, the first in the nation's history to be designated by the President as an "official" funeral. Gathered at Arlington National Cemetery was the greatest assemblage of foreign statesmen and diplomats ever to attend the burial of a U.S. citizen...
...studying at Princeton on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and had begun teaching. He became a U.S. citizen, settled down at Harvard in 1930 to teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent...
...presides over the Common Market executive, could point to solid progress. Already the Common Market's European Investment Bank (capital: $1 billion) had made its first loans. Others of Hallstein's 1,000-odd employees were busily working out common tariffs and establishing procedures so that any citizen of the Six may seek a job or set up a business anywhere in Common Market territory...
Countered Prudential President Carrol M. Shanks (TIME, March 18, 1957) last week: "The traditional approach to a retirement program has become inadequate and must be supplemented by some new economic weapon that will allow a retiring citizen to share in the economic growth of the country, and at the same time have some chance of protection against any impact of inflation. The variable annuity is the most promising weapon yet developed...