Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent actions of both Democratic and Republican administrations have undermined much of the strong, independent Civil Service that has slowly developed since its creation in 1885. The Service suffered its most damaging blow late last month, when a Federal judge ruled that the President can fire any government employee at will and without citing any cause, merely by shifting hom from a category of government service that is protected by Civil Service to one that...
...segregation [TIME, Dec. . ... Indeed, the regent leaves you wondering just who the "little handful of sissy, misguided squirts" are. Many men, lack ing the moral courage of facing fact squarely, are misguiding themselves and others through a slanted interpretation of the words that all men are the equal creation...
...Paris, Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali, looking pretty surrealistic himself, was persuaded to exhibit his newly elongated waxed mustache. To nobody's surprise, Dali explained that his latest creation served a real function: "It is like an aerial, stretching out to capture genius and inspiration, pointing to heaven like the spires of a cathedral...
...cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience of 4,000 and a big advance ticket sale, there was a tidy profit of almost $12,000 to underwrite the convalescent home for the next two years. There are separate and similar accommodations for English-speaking whites and still others for those of Mexican extraction...
...reviews, approves or rejects their decisions. The business of the day may include anything from the establishment of a new diocese (responsibility of the Consistorial Congregation) or plans for a seminary in Africa (Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith) to consideration of a new heresy (Holy Office) or creation of a new saint (Congregation of Rites...