Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Harry Truman to mourn alone at what they thought would be his own wake, now scrambled for places at the trainside. Outwardly, at least, the President was forgiving & forgetting. He even had a smile for South Carolina's Senator Olin D. Johnston, a pioneer of the Southern civil rights revolt, who said he voted for the President...
...wide spread between present food production and potential production, even in China and India, is vitally significant (and hopeful). Both great nations, in spite of civil disturbances, are beginning to industrialize. When their populations rise, following the classic curve, they can probably raise enough food to keep their people supplied until the curve begins to flatten out normally...
...drafty, bomb-blasted hangar. In the day they stood in the wan sunlight shaking the chill from their limbs as C-46s droned in monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
...minded Quebec, he had picked just the right topic: provincial rights. "Our Canadian unity depends on respect for the rights of the individual provinces," he cried. "The province of Quebec has special reasons for insisting on the sanctity of the British North America Act-the preservation of its language, civil law, religious rights and customs." These, said George (amid cheers) "must not be disturbed if we are to have true national unity in Canada." He accused the Liberals of overtaxing "by nearly a billion dollars this year," confidently added, "I don't believe the Liberal Party has a chance...
...Austria, where traditions never die, the new civil servants still played the favorite national drama - gravely concocting and slowly handing back & forth list upon list of government decrees, which must be "carefully aged, like bottles of rare wine" before they could enter public life. And on the public roads, the previous occupants of these high seats, now paying the price of cooperation with Hitler, were playing the same drama as if they were still in it. "Please, Herr Oberregierungsrat," requested the ex-judge, "will you have the kindness to hand me that shovel?" "With the greatest of pleasure, Your Excellency...