Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlborough's headmaster answered civilly but uncommunicatively. Others were less civil. Sneath wrote to George Bernard Shaw, reminding him of "the long-standing connections between your late wife's family and the school" and asking his attendance at the tercentenary. Replied G.B.S.: "Never heard of any such connection. Too old (91), anyhow...
...easy to pollute a Hindu temple. Even a Brahmin can do it by entering a temple within ten days after the birth of his child, or if he has had a haircut and goes in before taking a bath. Until recently, when a civil law eased the ban, Untouchables could pollute a temple just by blundering beyond the main gate...
...hotel rooms last week sat the men who had masterminded the victory of Rebel leader José Figueres in Costa Rica's civil war. Most of them were Nicaraguan and Dominican exiles, and they were indifferent to the celebrations in the streets outside. They had business to do. Said soft-voiced Dominican Colonel Miguel A. Ramirez, who had been Figueres' chief of staff in the recent campaign: "This is only the beginning. There are other, harder projects ahead...
Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
...more to it than that. For one thing, T.W.A. was not yet flying smoothly. Due chiefly to Cohu's payroll slashing, its $8,000,000 loss in 1947 was only a little more than half the loss of 1946. But only three weeks ago, T.W.A. notified the Civil Aeronautics Board that it was so short of cash that it would be "unable to continue even a semblance of its present service" unless it got a $3.000,000 boost in foreign mail rates-and got it right now. Moreover, only two weeks ago Cohu had been re-elected president...