Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs more and more money spent on schools, roads and houses than the President is willing to spend. They dislike his insistence that inflation is the nation's principal hazard-not because they like inflation but because they want to talk about other things, e.g., reclamation, broader civil rights legislation, urban renewal and power development...
...there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek. But as the U.S. position held firm, and as the Red China military bogged down, the Communists shifted to a new line. The Russians said they had been misunderstood, would never enter a "civil war." Peking radio called no more for "liberation" of Formosa and the offshore islands by force: instead it talked of resolving differences between "Chinese brothers" by discussions and amalgamation...
...Farmer Sellers, 37th and final Negro witness at a two-day fact-finding hearing of the Federal Civil Rights Commission, concluded his testimony last week, Father Hesburgh was not the only disturbed member of the six-man commission. Authorized 15 months ago by Congress, the panel had been hand-picked by the White House, with an oversensitive attention to balance between three Northerners and three Southerners...
...Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles...
...alone across Siberia, settles finally in a remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women and prisoners...