Word: cleanse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he...
U.S. scientists note with mixed feelings the high social status of their Soviet colleagues. Top Russian scientists live like top U.S. business executives, with city apartments, houses in the country, chauffeur-driven cars and servants. Their U.S. counterpart often earns less than the plumber who cleans his drains. Even low...
Some companies have even descended to wiretapping. After a major company lost an $80 million contract because it was underbid by only $200,000, it ran a phone check, found that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from...
Officials argue that their system cleans the cities of vagrants, helps the harvest and saves the government money. Last week in Pretoria Supreme Court, Justice Quartus De Wet, after hearing arguments that the system has no basis in law, remarked sternly, "The court cannot countenance this procedure." Crusading Lawyer Carlson...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General...