Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Direct Vote...
...Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick. At Los Alamos he proved that he could direct experimental physics. And he had the capacity to make prima donnas pull together, and ordinary people work like the devil. He worked like the devil himself-sometimes as much as 20 hours a day. A six-footer, he shrank...
...connection with local history does not end there, either. His mother, a direct descendant of John Knox, is also related to General Gage, of Continental Army fame...
...Hoffman: "The complete recovery of Western Europe can be expected by 1952 even if the Soviet satellites continue to block trade between Eastern and Western Europe." The other report came from General Lucius Clay, home on a 27-hour visit from his headquarters in Germany to make his first direct report to the U.S. people on the Battle for Berlin...
Words & Actions. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians. Malan has announced that he proposes to eject from Parliament the representatives of the Negroes, and to deprive the "colored" (mixed-blood) voters of Cape Province of their direct franchise. The government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect...