Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break your excellent habit of nominating a well-known person and put a world-forgotten person like me on your cover? It is not because I am interesting, but I have the idea it will be an attraction if you nominate an unknown world citizen who has had, until now, bad luck. I am Dutch, 51 years of age, of French descent...
When the reporters had cleared out, he swore in the sheriff, telling him: "The main thing I want you to understand is that I appointed you because you are a good citizen, not because you are the friend of a friend, and you are not beholden to me or anyone else but the people of your county...
...county fathers of Los Angeles tardily (by three weeks) honored a famed local citizen's 70th birthday, handed a plaque to prodigious Popularizer Will (The Story of Philosophy) Durant, hailed in bronze as "the best known of all the living interpreters of great periods and personalities in history." Shucking off such acclaim, Dr. Durant expertly served up interpretations of two personalities: "I'd say the greatest living philosopher is Bertrand Russell, the greatest historian is Arnold Toynbee." Asked about the mixed blessing of a long life, he philosophized: "I envy Marlene Dietrich [50] because apparently she has been...
...March 9, 1953, Mrs. Clarice Covert, an American citizen who had accompanied her U.S. Air Force husband on his assignment to Britain, told a psychiatrist that she was "just going to explode." Next day she exploded: she hacked Master Sergeant Edward Covert to death with an ax as he lay sleeping in their Heyfort home...
...give back to the foreign countries which have surrendered it by treaty, jurisdiction over American civilians with its armed forces. But would such revision meet American standards of justice? For example, should an American national be forced to stand trial before a French Communist judge? Or should a U.S. citizen receive punishment under Islamic law (in Saudi Arabia, the penalty for thievery is the hand of the thief...