Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other end of Canada, labor unions were also about to get some lumps. In British Columbia, where strike-prone unions accounted for 17% of all man-days lost in Canada last year, the ruling Social Credit party introduced a bill that would make unions legal entities subject to civil suits for damages resulting from strikes. The proposed law would also ban sympathy picket lines, blacklisting of companies, boycotts of goods turned out by nonunion labor...
With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig. Scoffed Nkrumah: "ridiculous headgear," considering Ghana's sweltering climate...
...This book, published in 1948, gave him a lesson in the semantics of U.S. publishing. His original title, The End of the Protestant Era?, was vetoed by the publishers on the grounds that no book with a question mark in the title sells well. "Then leave off the question mark," said Tillich. "That would be giving too much comfort to the Catholics," said his Protestant friends...
...Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary had offered him a post at Union, but Tillich hesitated. He called on the Minister of Education in Berlin. "For a full hour," remembers Tillich, "we discussed the Old Testament and the importance to Christianity of the Jewish tradition. At the end of that hour I knew it was over...
...precise, saber-scarred from student dueling, he was once a professor at the Technical University at Darmstadt, Germany, started his rocket firing at Peenemunde in 1940. He fired more than 200 rockets in Germany (where an errant V-2 once missed him by 25 ft.). At war's end he came to the U.S. as part of the willing spoils of Hitler's defeated Germany, soon found himself in charge of all rocket firing for the Army...