Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-lynching, and fair employment practices legislation; for Federal and State laws to prevent segregation or discrimination in schools, theaters, trains, and hotels; and for State laws against restrictive real estate covenants. On the surface, the committee's recommendations would appear to be a major blow in behalf of civil liberties...
...explaining why one of their DC-45 had gone into a violent dive, on a clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...
...world thought war was the ultimate horror, and civil war the worst of wars. It is not. India is what Macaulay called it, a 'decomposed society.' Even the British could not establish law; they merely kept order. A decomposed society cannot make war, which requires law, authority, organization. India and Pakistan may progress to the point where they can make war or even to the point where, being able to make war, they will decide to live in amity. But in the six weeks of the killing India and Pakistan were beneath...
...Wallace movement, the prospectus states, is alone in its fight to preserve civil liberties in the United States...
...list of new government jobs which, for the most part, jibe with courses of concentration in the College, the Office called attention to the fact that the deadline for filing an application card with the Washington Commission is November 4. The card is necessary for permission to take the Civil Service examination...