Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other than ex-General Castello Branco, whose regime after twelve months seems confident of success and determined to restore civilian rule...
...writing has dealt mainly with existentialism, ethics and the relationship between philosophy and the arts. His forthcoming book, tentatively titled The Claim to Rationality, is based on his doctoral thesis...
Brown voiced his greater concern for the Catholic than the Protestant struggle toward tolerance and dealt specifically with the faltering progress of the Vatican Council's religious liberty resolution. Blocked in three previous sessions, the resolution is up this year for its fourth and last...
...overthrow the established government by force or violence, or to deprive individuals of the rights of American citizens, or to in timidate or oppress persons in the exercise of their constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under our present system of laws, if their guilt can be established. The frightening aspect of Communist or Klan control laws is that they permit the government to punish people without actually proving such guilt--and by merely satisfying legislators that the organizations to which they belong are "subversive...
...Johnson conceded, the immediate purpose of his visit dealt with the South. The founding fathers, he recalled, believed that "the most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders." Yet, he said, "the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes. Every device of which human ingenuity is capable has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong, or the hour is late. And even a college degree...