Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Parliament was hip-deep in a session in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor Government would try to complete nationalization already started (steel, civil aviation, health, etc.), reveal its long-term measures for permanent socialization...
However, U.S. General George C. Marshall and Ambassador Leighton Stuart have been impressed by the Communist threat that if Chiang took Kalgan the Reds would begin all-out civil war in a "total national split." For those who started from that premise, the fall of Kalgan held an unhappy political significance...
Taft, in effect, could see no basic difference between international and civil law. He indicated that little was gained at Nürnberg and much was lost. He doubted "whether the hanging of those who . . . were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects...
...went ailing, cantankerous War Minister Jack Lawson, aged Air Minister Viscount Stansgate, muddling Minister of Civil Aviation Lord Winster. Up went brilliant, young (36) Hector McNeil, Foreign Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, to be Minister of State; voluble Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, became Colonial Minister...
...take a daily run around the present site of Langdell, which was then an open plot of ground known as Holmes Field. Combining his fondness for exercise with an intense interest in American history, he spent the summers from 1912 to 1920 hiking over the battlefields of the Civil War. Carrying 35-pound knapsacks, he and a companion covered an average of 20 miles a day. For a man of his outstanding academic achievements, Professor Pound has maintained an unusual interest in sports. In fact the last thing he said as this writer was leaving his office was, "Have...