Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implemented only by recruiting, subsidizing and supporting a heterogeneous array of satellites, clients, dependents and puppets ... a coalition of disorganized, disunited, feeble and disorderly nations, tribes and factions around the perimeter of the Soviet Union . . . [which] cannot in fact be made to coalesce . . . a seething stew of civil strife...
Green was glum as he told newsmen of the decision. Said he: "The Taft-Hartley law is reprehensible and vicious and destructive to the legal and civil rights of workers. . . . [The council] could not conform to the Denham ruling...
...definitive study, Recurring Cycles of Fashion, Agnes Brooks Young discovered only three major styles in women's dresses in the last 200 years: back fullness (the bustle), tubular skirts (the basic fashion from 1900 through 1937), and the bell skirt of pre-Civil War days. Each cycle seemed to last about 38 years...
...effort by some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
Like most Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...