Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...
...President then read Mrs. Thomas a passage from the Constitution; he announced, she said, that he would not take back anything he had said on civil rights...
After Czechoslovakia became a nation, he entered his father's government, first as a civil servant (secretary to then Foreign Minister Eduard Benes), later as a diplomat. His post was London, where he was enormously popular. In a crowd he sparkled, but sometimes among small groups and after a few drinks he became deeply, almost tearfully melancholy. Near war's close someone asked Jan Masaryk what his postwar plans were. Said he simply: "I want to go home...
Since Imam Yahya of Yemen's death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
North Croydon is a cluster of geometrically dreary, determinedly middle-class suburbs on the southwestern fringes of London. Its mile after mile of dull, red brick houses are inhabited by shopkeepers, civil servants, office workers. Since the constituency was formed in 1918, North Croydon has been doggedly Conservative...