Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parnell Thomas, who, with his House Committee on Un-American Activities, has done most this year in the usurpation of civil liberties by government...
...Civil Rights Congress, headed by rich, earnest George Marshall (no kin to the Secretary of State). It has been the courtroom defender of avowed Communists...
...successful were the two deterrents? China's heap of skulls has not, apparently, accomplished much; last week, civil war raged only 200 miles away. UNESCO's heap of brains was not doing a great deal better. That was demonstrated last week when UNESCO wound up its conference in Mexico City...
...this sea of grass, Captain King and a steamboating partner, Captain Mifflin Kenedy, launched a modest cattle business. It boomed during the Civil War. They drove cattle and horses to the Confederate troops, and their steamboats, laden with cotton, ran the Union blockade. As money rolled in (at cost plus 10%) they added to their lands, then split up. (The Kenedy Ranch today adjoins the King Ranch...
...Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor of an old Orpheum Theater backdrop of Versailles. And Ben Ames Williams, old Satevepost standby, was delivered of a 1,514-page Civil War novel...