Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleading with the West to lie down before world Communism. One day last week, Lord Russell, 89, walked into London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court accompanied by Lady Russell, 61, and three dozen fellow members of Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, which advocates unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission for the rally, and of being "likely to persist in such unlawful conduct." Asked the court clerk...
...wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent when speaking of Montaigne himself, whose lifelong preoccupation with...
...LOST COLONY (Manteo, N.C.) set the standard for open-air pageantry in 1937, and is still running. Playwright Paul Green retells the story of the small group of settlers on Roanoke Island who dis appeared from history in 1587. The play delivers the infant Virginia Dare, also delivers some tentative speculation on what happened to the settlers: forced to choose between surrender to a Spanish warship and taking their chances elsewhere in the unknown country, they elect the footpath in the wilderness that will lead to freedom, or death...
...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...entire industry." Coals & Cricket. By the time Cresap appeared, the subcommittee was already digging into the possibility that there had been price fixing not only in heavy equipment, the only field covered in the Government's original conspiracy charges, but in electric motors as well. The new dis closures came from William F. Oswalt, who headed General Electric's motor and generator department until he was forced to resign in March. Oswalt testified that on two occasions he discussed prices with competitors at meetings designed "primarily to establish motor reratings," added that at other times he had discussed...