Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase of 20% in pensions for survivors of the Spanish-American and Civil Wars and their dependents...
...Richmond, Va., litigation brought to light a sentimental bequest which sounded as though it had been copied straight from a Civil War ballad. Valentine Browne Lawless, a soldier killed in Europe in 1944, had left $3,000 to provide "one perfect rose of any color to be sent each Saturday morning to the girl I love very dearly and whom I will love for the rest of my life...
...another economic crisis, expelled England's Jews. In 1644, Roger Williams, himself a conscientious refugee, wrote in favor of their official return. Over the years, beginning about 1650, Jews began re-establishing themselves in Britain. By 1871 Britain's Jews, after many gains, had received complete civil equality...
There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
Throughout Paraguay's five months' civil war, the rebel base had been Concepcion, 130 miles up the Paraguay River from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles...