Word: enactments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carved into two slices from British India's flanks. It has since won the respect of the world for its guts, its breezy good will and its single-minded resistance to Communism. But Pakistan, seven years old, has yet to convene a nationwide general election or to enact a constitution. It has yet to determine the place of religion in the state, though the Moslem faith is really all that binds together the two halves, which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi...
...Hollywood, a studio movie set was swept for action as red-haired Maureen O'Hara, wigged to her knees, prepared to re-enact history's barest bareback ride in the title role of Lady Godiva of Coventry. After the set was cleared, all that remained were 14 film technicians (eleven of them women), no outsiders, not a single producer...
...throng to the movies, where filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise in productivity and have more cars, more money, more switchknives, and more idle time to read and re-enact the immortal works of Mickey Spillane...
...Communists have won in Indo-China, and it is time we woke up . . . Why does our Government lull us with lowered taxes, business-as-usual talk? What we need is to arm and to make ready. We should tax till it hurts. Develop our military. Enact the universal military service legislation. President Eisenhower is a great military leader. What is stopping him from advising Congress and the people of the danger and of the necessary steps to be taken...
Last March, urging Congress to enact the Randall Commission's tariff recommendations, President Eisenhower said: "If we fail in our trade policy, we may fail in all. Our domestic employment, our standard of living, our security and the solidarity of the free world-all are involved. "Last week Senate Democrats underlined the President's failure to fight for a program that he had said was necessary...