Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little...
...state if I were in court and guilty.") Then on Aug. 22, 1957, the Fargo Forum carried a brief notice tucked away on an inside page: "U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies of Fargo will leave Saturday for Little Rock, Ark. to preside at a term of the Eastern District of the U.S. Court of Arkansas. He will replace the presiding judge...
...because of this fear of German aggression--the fear that the Germans will seek to regain the land which was ceded to Poland after World War II as a reparation for Russian gains in eastern Poland--that the Poles feel they have at the moment a greater common interest with the Soviet bloc than with the Western powers. The West has repeatedly backed Germany's claim to the disputed territory...
Cowell's globe-girdling tour began as a sabbatical, but before he got through, he found himself lecturing in a dozen Eastern cities, endowing a Cowell cup at the Madras Academy of Music, giving piano-lecture recitals on modern American music. In Damascus, his planned arrival was announced by leaflets dusted over the city by low-flying planes...
...million Africans, 90 million are Moslems, 90 million are animists. The 40 million Christians include roughly 19 million Catholics, 12 million Protestants and 8,000,000 members of Eastern Orthodox churches...