Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melish did not take the edict lying down. The night before, the anti-Melish faction had changed some 40 church locks to keep Melish out. Melish partisans had countered by tearing off one of the locks. At the 11 o'clock service, the second minister, who had been sent by Bishop De Wolfe, retreated when it became apparent that most of the congregation was following the Rev. Mr. Melish's conduct of the service. The reason that many parishioners back Melish is that they resent the bishop's actions as "High Church" interference...
...from killing the romance, this edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise...
...union official gave the edict: "Free riders (independents) will soon realize that they can't continue operations without organizational backing...
...triumphant season. At its next meeting, the Council will pass on cross country. To gain consideration, however, the cross country team should not have to rely merely on publicity via walkie-talkie. Cross country demands just a much athletic effort as any major sport, yet remains minor by official edict. Since cross country's standards for letter awards are already high, the Council should end this inconsistency and raise it to major status...
...Year Plan, the Communists proclaimed that industry must be shifted from the old seaboard cities to new centers in the interior. One of the first moves: transplant Shanghai's textile mills, heart of the city's industry, to cotton-growing areas. Last spring came an even stiffer edict. "It is absolutely necessary to reduce the population," decreed the city's Communist People's Congress. The reported goal: 50%. Explained the newspaper Sin Wen Daily: "Shanghai was abnormally developed ... for the benefit of imperialism, bureaucratic capital and feudalism...