Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings...
From Faneuil Hall back across Massachusetts, taxpayers howled their indignation last week; seldom since the Boston Tea Party had there been such a civic outcry. The target of public wrath: new pensions for old pols...
...career, he had been threatened with dismissal, but no one took these threats seriously because Cambridge was reforming in earnest and the city's expenditures had to be slashed, but more important Atkinson was backed up by a majority of the "good government" councillors--those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association...
Visiting Chicago, young King Feisal II remained in his hotel room, canceled all appointments, including a civic luncheon. A State Department attaché explained: the tour of Detroit, with an eight-mile hike through the Ford plant, had left His Majesty "completely bushed...
...last Saturday, Aug. 9, the air-raid sirens wailed again in Nagasaki. In memory of the atom-bomb dead, Nagasaki citizens bowed their heads, closed their eyes, prayed. Temple bells rang, civic leaders spoke. That night thousands of small lanterns, each with a candle burning in it, floated down the river which runs through the center of Nagasaki. In Buddhist faith, each candle consoled a soul lost in the atom blast...