Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought to myself, 'Now he thinks his bicycle is wonderful, but in a year he'll earn enough to buy himself a car.' I was struck by the freedom he represented-by distances in this country, the plains of the Little Bighorn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other things. I was excited by the motion of the bicycle too. The moving wheels were one of the most difficult things I ever painted. I called it Young America because it expressed in a way the vastness of America and American history...
...janitors' complaint, the CRIMSON learned yesterday, is that they were offered by H. U. E. R. A. president Daniel G. Mulvihill a choice between either a 40-hour week with no change in total weekly pay, or a five percent raise with the same schedule of 40 hours one week, 44 the next. They chose the first in a vote held late last week...
...delegates represented some half-million supporters in all parts of South Africa, roused to resistance against the increasingly severe racial segregation policies of 77-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan,*a distant cousin of handsome, pipe-smoking Sailor Malan...
...veterans blew their patriotic tops over Daniel Malan's bill because the constitution says that a two-thirds majority of both Houses of Parliament, in joint session, is necessary to repeal or alter franchise rights. The bill passed both houses, but in separate sessions with simple majorities...
...official explanation for their banishment: their squabbling over Seretse's marriage to a blonde London typist endangered tribal unity. The real reason: to placate South Africa's rabid, racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan, who is ready to seize any excuse to take over Bechuanaland, which borders his country to the north...