Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
Southerners politely applauded Harriman's retreat from antimoderation, hoped that it signified that the Harriman forces were abandoning their plan to disrupt the platform-writing sessions in Chicago with an unequivocal demand for a strong civil-rights plank. But Southerners were still cool and suspicious toward Candidate...
Women & Children First. The main vaccine problem is supply, which is still far behind demand, although 69 million cc. have been released. Of the expanding monthly output (9,500,000 cc. in May), 60% now goes to public agencies for free clinics and distribution to local doctors. The rest goes through normal sales channels to druggists and M.D.s. Scheele urged doctors to give high-priority coverage to children under 15 and to pregnant women...
...with her, and the villagers began to flock to her hut. Soon she had another word from God. There were two books, He told her, one for whites and one for blacks, and the black book was the right one. Once again Lenshina appeared in Lubwa, this time to demand the use of the mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book and sent it off to Scotland. She began attacking the New Testament, calling it icibolya-"a deserted village...
...point of contention was a demand by the American Guild of Musical Artists, i.e., the singers and dancers, for salary increases and job security. Management refused to budge, particularly because its contracts with the musicians' and stagehands' unions specified that they could be reopened if any of the Met's other employees get a raise. After nine weeks of negotiations, and less than twelve hours before a deadline beyond which the Met felt it could not go if it was to have adequate financing for the new season, Al Manuti, president of Local 802 of the Musicians...