Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks Judge Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before...
...built from the nearest highway, and 800,000 tons of rocks had to be blasted out of the belly of the mountain. But to Generalissimo Franco in 1941 such obstacles were minor. Gradually, in the Valley of the Fallen, in memory of the million Spaniards killed during the Civil War, there rose the great monument and mausoleum where he and those who had died for the cause of "liberation" were to be buried...
...oppose the Premier. Armed with his new mandate, Phoui Sananikone promised Laotians a new constitution, pledged that the royal government would build dams and roads, improve communications, seek foreign investments. He would rule, said the Premier, through the "two essential motors" of an independent state: the army and the civil service...
...year had passed, and as the 44,000 civil servants and intellectuals trooped back to their desks in Peking, the Communist press could scarcely find words rapturous enough to describe the change that had come over them. The 44,000 had just completed a "year's tempering in productive work." Translation: they had been ideologically "remolded'' by a year's forced manual labor in the country...
...four years Batista allowed his hand-picked successor to be defeated in Cuba's first honest election and retired to Daytona Beach to enjoy his graft. The administrations of Ramón Grau San Martin. (1944-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948-52) respected civil liberties but not the treasury. Prío amassed millions by the time he fled Batista's coup...