Word: different
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once paid a $10 fine for taking his three-year-old daughter into a white playground in Washington. The other four cases before the court, from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas, were brought about in much the same manner by the N.A.A.C.P. The legal technicalities in the lawsuits differ somewhat from case to case,* but the aim is the same: mixed schools...
There are some brave souls who attempt to define recession in specific terms. The results are just as baffling. To retailers, a recession is a drop in sales, but they will differ as to whether it is a 5% or a 20% drop. To manufacturers, industrial production is the yardstick; to labor leaders, unemployment; to Wall Streeters, stock prices...
...here and there throughout the centuries, have taken the New Testament to mean not a continuation but a repudiation of the Old." Because Williams' powerful opponents had modeled the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the fire and thunder kingdoms of the Old Testament, and considered it a social crime to differ with the Massachusetts' Congregational dogma, the implications of Williams' opinions were treasonous and heretical. According to him, the kingdoms of Saul and David were nothing but anachronisms...
...effect on democracy any different where the questions are about alleged activities and ideas concerning communism. this concept was poignantly expressed by Mr. Justice Jackson in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (319 U. S. 62): "... freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a more shadow of freedom. The test of its substance in the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order if there is any fixed near in our constitutional constrictions, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe...
...protection-minded Senator Homer Capehart, present at the World Bank and Monetary Fund sessions, broadly hinted that Randall might not have the last word anyhow. "Watch my committee," Capehart told newsmen. "We are going to put out a better report than the Randall committee." Asked if his recommendations would differ considerably from Randall's, Capehart was owlish. "I wouldn't .be surprised," he said. "I wouldn't be surprised...