Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah had kindled the fires of civil war with his slogan "Pakistan or die!" Last week, as tan dust swirled through New Delhi on the year's hottest day (112°), it was up to Jinnah to cool off his Moslem League...
West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
...followers shouted a new slogan: 'Hamara atom bomb Qaid-i-Azam"-The Great Leader is our atom bomb. But the fuse was a little slow; the bomb had not gone off, and it looked at last as if India might achieve independence without civil...
...that session his seldom consulted followers were reluctant to go along, although they were as unprepared for civil war as they were for peace. Next day the hammiest actor in world politics (now that Il Duce has made his exit) had to put on another show to make the League see reason...
When nonscheduled airlines began to mushroom all over the U.S., airmen predicted that most of the new companies would stay in business only until the Civil Aeronautics Board wielded its regulatory ax (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week the ax fell. Before CAB stops swinging, 95% of the nonscheduled fliers may be grounded...