Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broad vistas for potential civil servants were opened last week, the Office of Student Placement announced yesterday, as it revealed a Civil Service Commission program entitled "Junior Professional Assistant...
...been the opinion of competent observers of the French situation that De Gaulle would have been prepared to follow in the footsteps of France and start a civil war if the Communists had been elected. But this was no coup d'etat. The fact that a Fascist or semi-Fascist party won in a free election makes the situation that much more dangerous. It reveals a rapidly increasing despair of American aid materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites...
...touched by despair, was spreading in Communist ranks. Communists cannot rally the working class of Western Europe against the Marshall Plan, because many of the Socialist leaders are for the plan. The Polish declaration is an attempt to gain the appearance of having the initiative. In Italy a bloodless civil war has begun. There is no sign that the Reds will be so foolhardy as to start a military civil war. The decorous blue serge suit is still prescribed Communist fashion; but last week the Communists, in effect, unbuttoned the double-breasted coat long enough for the world...
...writer, the publisher and the reader have certain inviolable civil rights, and all three have responsibility for vigilant protection and uncompromising maintenance of these rights and this freedom. If they fail-that is, if you and I fail, here in Europe, or in America, or anywhere in the world-slavery has come again. Manuscripts will be banned, books will be burned, and writers and readers will once again be sitting in concentration camps for having thought dangerous ideas or uttered forbidden words...
...civil engineer and marine architect, 43-year-old Gerry Stairs settled in Mahone Bay because he could find no living quarters in Halifax after discharge from the Navy. With little original capital and no office staff except his wife (who is still his secretary), Stairs has worked up his business to $250,000 a year. Eight Acadia 425 have been ordered. Complete with galley, auxiliary engine and berths for four to six, the boat sells for about $8,700. Canadians estimate that the same ship would cost $20,000 if built...