Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bettelli of Los Angeles put the late Mark Hellinger's armored car up for sale. The automobile, a 1931 Lincoln eight-cylinder, custom-built town sedan, has one-inch bulletproof glass, armored sides and roof, and has a secret machine-gun compartment. The price...
...Larger Battlefield? The corruption of many Chinese leaders is given as the reason why the U.S. cannot effectively "aid China" against the Communists. Against the background given by the Bolton report, corruption takes on a different look. It is not just an old Chinese custom, nor a piece of bad luck. It is the normal situation that the U.S. has to face in the three-fourths of the world which is industrially backward. That three-fourths, as the British and others have learned, cannot be kept indefinitely in a state of tutelage to Western ideas. It will move into...
...substance, but to the authoritative source that has the right to make it. In order to establish democracy, one has to establish not only free choice of representatives; one has first to establish the legislative function that representatives are to exercise. The implanting of democracy in custom-ruled societies requires simultaneous performance of two great tasks which, in the West, were carried out in sequence...
...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...
Following the custom of relaxing the rules for Yale weekends, the meeting agreed on uniform extension of the time limits...