Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over to the Allies. As the hope of independence grew in neighboring India, Aung San's demands for Burmese freedom have become more threatening. With Sir Henry Knight in Rangoon, however, Aung San might think twice before acting. In India 15 years ago, Knight had crushed a local civil-disobedience campaign by summarily executing six of its leaders. *Robbery by a band of five or more...
...Translating theory into action, A.V.C. members picketed a tavern which refused to serve two Negro veterans, had the proprietor arrested for violation of the Iowa state civil-rights law on charges backed by onetime Willkie-man Oren Root Jr. Next day, the New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. drafted a full-page ad complimenting the city of Des Moines on prompt police action...
...huge community housing projects which Vienna's Socialists had built for their workers in their brief, triumphant decades before Hitler. The gaunt spire in the center of the city and the workers' fortresslike homes on the outskirts (which Catholic Chancellor Dolfuss shelled in the bitter years of civil discord) were both symbols of Vienna's different pasts. They were also symbols of two sturdy European forces, Catholicism and Socialism. From the present cooperation between them Austria drew some hope and the strength-scarce in Europe today-of holding out against Communism...
...eight years after the Civil War, the Judkinses would have no truck with the Union. They spent those eight years in Brazil. Many a U.S. broadcaster wishes they had stayed there...
...lines had been easy to start. Unlike scheduled airlines, they did not have to have a CAB certificate to operate. The Civil Aeronautics Administration estimated that more than 2,730 companies had been formed, usually by veterans. They were operating more than 5,500 planes, almost nine times the total number of planes on scheduled U.S. airlines...