Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punching a hole through the symbol of one's choice. Electoral officers plodded through the jungles to advertise the election with cartoon movies and singing pup pet shows. Sample song: "Let's all go there, brother, brother. Let's all go vote ... to be respected and defend the na tional state." At stake were 260 seats in a parliament that will govern Indonesia at least until year's end, when a constitutional assembly will be elected to write a permanent constitution for the republic. At issue was whether Indonesia reverts to the neurotic, fuzzily pro-Communist...
With a cheery smile and a pat on the back for everyone, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson returned from a 16-day tour of Europe last week to defend his conduct of office. He was the storm center of a mounting uproar from the farmlands that worried the Republicans and encouraged the Democrats to predict a "green uprising" in their favor in next year's elections. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Orville Freeman struck his party's keynote when he said that the Eisenhower Administration considered farming to be a stepchild of little importance in an otherwise...
Unlike most of his predecessors, he is expected to defend his title next year. Said Ward, as he received the winner's trophy: "I will never turn...
Said an Indian government official: "The men who defend polyandry are fighting a hopeless battle. Women always have the last word everywhere...
...Memoirs come to an end before Catherine's years of waiting. Thus, she does not defend herself against history's presumption that she was responsible for Peter's murder, ten days after the army made Catherine Empress of Russia. The narrative is nevertheless a disarmingly intimate conversation, across cultures and continents, by a woman of sense and sensibility who lived more than 50 years in Russia in the awareness that "fundamentally no Russian really likes a foreigner...