Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally with all citizens...
...last week threw practically everything they had against besieged Berlin-everything except five well-equipped Red army divisions hovering under the chestnuts of Potsdam ten miles away. Never before had a city of three million people, in time of "peace," been summoned to surrender before the threat of starvation, civil war within, or a bigger war without. It seemed clear by last week that, in the Communist Baedeker, Berlin was listed right after Prague...
...Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
Today the weathered, reddish-grey walls of the abbey's gate tower are flanked by modern lecture halls and a swimming pool. But students proudly point out their abbey's heavy-beamed library, in which Parliament sat during the 17th Century's civil wars. A public (i.e., private) school for the past 25 years, St. Albans now takes in some 450 boys, nearly all sons of townsmen, at a modest tuition of ?15 ($60) per term...
...help when they come to the museum's most important pictures, such as the great Guernica mural that shows Picasso in a wilder and more difficult mood than his recent one. Faced with that deliberately and violently ugly protest against a German bombing raid (in the Spanish Civil War), visitors fairly bristle with questions...