Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the centuries," says Morocco's Minister of Justice, "false interpretations of Islamic law have loaded society with social abuses of many varieties. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the situation of Moslem women. Islam makes woman equal with man, with the same rights and the same duties. It gives her the right to choose her husband, and if it allows polygamy, it submits it to severe restrictive conditions which are difficult to fulfill...
Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard...
...George Meany and his executive council held firm. After 90 minutes of discussion with Hoffa and his general executive board, the council huddled in executive session for an equal period of time. At length, Jimmy Hoffa, cooling his heels in an outer office, was called in to hear the verdict: the Teamsters were suspended by a 25 to 4 vote (the four: representatives of the Teamsters, the scandal-tinged Bakery Workers, the powerful Carpenters, the Letter Carriers). Under George Meany's tough hand, a powerful majority had shown that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. would risk its own future to protect...
...raise another $250,000 to build a second gallery below the present museum area. With interest and enthusiasm running high, Director Dwight now sees a chance to parlay the new building into a major art museum, one that will lift Milwaukee into the major-league category in art to equal its standing in baseball and beer...
...half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will be far ahead of the real one in that it can be pronounced a success...