Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Howe noted the decisions involved problems of federalism, and he felt that if the minority had won, "civil rights would be difficult to enforce." Freund called the majority opinion, "a check against bogus civil rights decisions...
Fisher, discussing the civil rights issue, said, "If you don't trust the state courts then deal with the problem of the state courts." He felt that the court, instead of trying to preserve federalism, had actually undermined it. If two trails are allowed, "the basic proposition is that the state court is ignored...
...Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls, have been gradually squeezed out of the civil service, and, being lumped together with the "coloreds" (mulattoes), are subject to all the hardships and indignities of apartheid, and are referred to as "coolies...
Last week fiery Pepe Figueres replied. The Costa Rican, whose democratic bona fides include an action-packed revolution of his own against a Communist-linked coalition in 1948, told 300 veterans of his civil war that honest democrats "want the approval of the people, not of the rabble. I have been where they want to convert the people into a mob and even turn them into cannon fodder for the Soviets. In every American country there exists a Communist nucleus that backs a demagogue's leadership. Demagoguery, No! Communism, No!" Roared the veterans: "Down with Fidel Castro...
Divine Trance. Born near Canton, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan ("The Accomplished and Perfected'') at first longed to be a civil servant. Disheartened at flunking exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...