Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kwame Nkrumah, who established an Institute of African Studies at the university after severing all ties with the University of London. In French-speaking black Africa, where early missionaries had rigidly emphasized European thought, nationalist leaders have been unable to recruit enough Africa-minded teachers or enact reform for fear of endangering the flow of supporting funds from France, often specifically earmarked for Western-designed programs...
...halt the flight of the franc, it also ordered residents of France to take no more than $20 in French currency when they pop abroad for a day's visit. Whatever the ultimate outcome of the elections, a new government's first priority will not be to enact the reforms demanded by the revolt but to cope with its costly economic consequences...
...federal books. One is the National Firearms Act of 1934, taxing interstate shipments of such gangster-style weapons as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing, as the President declared, "the demented, the deranged, the hardened criminal and the convict, the addict and the alcoholic" to order weapons by mail with no questions asked...
...times have changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that...
...fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed bows and arrows to re-enact the great battle right here at Cambridge-on-the-Charles. All the arrangements were made amidst great excitement and relative secrecy. What stopped the warriors from their brave encounter? They were refused permission from University Hall. The apocryphal answer they were given, the word from on high, stopping them...