Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military and political pressures which now cause fear and worry as to the future must be removed. Once political and military conditions are stable, much of Europe can again become a sound economic risk. If positive steps are not taken, we shall go from tensions to hatred to civil war and finally to world catastrophe...
...last year the state of New Jersey slipped him a disturbingly potent mickey -it put voting machines into Hoboken. The effect was electrifying. Some of McFeely's cops, angry at having been directed to waive their overtime pay during World War II, campaigned for a civil service referendum. It passed. After that, Hoboken's long-suffering citizens began to think of throwing off their shackles...
Topmost Branch. Either way, the Army still runs Brazil. Over 100,000 strong, it is the fourth-and dominant-branch of government. In the backlands, where the officer shares pre-eminence with the priest, it operates railways, civilizes the Indians. It has produced many of the country's political leaders, not excepting Communist Chief Luis Carlos Prestes, a commander in a civil war in the '20s. Last week it quelled a revolt of noncoms who would have restored ex-Dictator Vargas...
What is an "educated man?" At the centennial of New York's City College last week, a British civil servant raised the familiar question and hazarded an unfamiliar answer. Sidney Herbert Wood, 63, retiring principal assistant secretary of the Ministry of Education, thought there were three "acid tests...
...Paul's wife Simone. Paul, at 38, is a middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery -friendship which is impaired when Bob is tortured by the Germans (for Paul is inadequate to restore his broken courage), and destroyed when Bob, on a mission to Paris, becomes...