Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impetus for yesterday's Town-Gown at- tack on the problem was furnished by the passage by the state legislature of a veterans housing bill giving cities and towns the right to acquire "tracts of land which are entirely, or almost, unoccupied by buildings," by right of eminent domain, to be used for housing "of a temporary nature," for a period not to exceed five years...
...country house of Britain's Prime Minister the generation of empire menders was at work. The worried ghosts of the empire builders-among them. Raffles of Singapore and Coen of Batavia-looked on. The great Far Eastern domain they had helped create was badly cracked, in danger of breakdown...
...states carved out of Abdul's empire had taken over his jiftlik as part of the public domain. His heirs contended that this was illegal seizure of private property...
...intruders upon her grief, felt like tiptoeing away and leaving her alone. But even for them, such pictures had the same fascination that drove photographers to take them and editors to run them. Obviously such pictures invaded a citizen's privacy. But they also invaded deeply a public domain: the basic stuff of joy and sorrow which is the real news about life...
From the seven-a former supreme court justice, two newspapermen, two former university professors and two student leaders-came a story of trouble in Tacho's domain. It had all started when Somoza's National Guardsmen charged and clubbed thousands of Nicaraguans who had turned out to welcome Chile's visiting libertarian President Juan Antonio Rios...