Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to be sure, for that matter, just where all 500 organizations fitted in. Veterans' associations, labor unions, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Y.M.C.A. were on hand. There were representatives of the National Thespian Society, the American Association of Teachers of French, the Polish National Catholic Church of America, the D.A.R. and the American Guild of Organists. The cultural unity of the human race was the farthest objective anybody actually mentioned, but the American Society of Mammalogists, perhaps looking for new species' to consolidate, showed...
...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...autumn sunlight Asuncion hardly looked like the capital of a nation caught in the throes of civil war. Indian women and heavily laden burros carried produce to market. Men loafed in the cafes, sipping small cups of coffee and yerba mate. The seedy Palacio Lopez, where Dictator Higinio Morinigo rules with his back to the nearby muddy Paraguay River, had the easy, unguarded air of an Illinois county courthouse...
After six years of dictatorship, in which nearly every human right has been abridged, Morinigo would have to hold out strong promises of better times to win the rebels and reunite the country. If appeasement failed, Paraguay might be in for a long civil war-although, with business already down 50%, the bets were against it. And there was always the chance, if Morinigo refused to make democratic concessions, that his own followers might decide that it was best for everyone to heave...
...nation's ailing airlines got a quick shot in the arm last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved their request for a 10% raise in passenger fares (from 4.68? a mile to slightly more than 5?) to last for 90 days. The lines had cried that increased operating costs had made them lose $10,000,000 last year. The boost, they hopefully estimated, would increase gross revenues by $25,000,000, make up for the increased costs...