Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanzetti's wish that their deaths might serve as a lesson so they would not have died in vain now echoes hollowly off the walls of the star-chamber, and the injustice of their execution draws a some-what less harsh parallel in other present denials of civil rights. The Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion...
Some visitors felt the Wahoos were still fighting the Civil War. This is not so. They are merely still enjoying it. One Southerner definitely did not enjoy it, however...
Helped by Northwestern University's famed Surgeon Paul Magnuson, who had long wanted to team up veterans' hospitals with medical schools, Hawley began to train and attract topnotch doctors. Over the opposition of some big brass, he got a law taking the V.A. medical corps out of Civil Service and raising fees so that he might hire the ablest specialists as consultants...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...
...Army. Three-dimensional warfare offers new scope for this principle. Large armies can be landed by air in the farthest reaches of the enemy's rear lines; such forces, in addition to destroying vital industrial centers and occupying strategic points, would also constitute a kernel for civil...