Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime set up a special three-officer revolutionary tribunal, made it supreme over all other courts, empowered it to hand down death sentences on traitors, rounded up scores of suspects and began trying them this week. Among the arrested: two ex-Premiers of the Farouk era, including the discredited Wafdist chief, Mustafa Nahas...
...that the rival cities were thrown into a financial panic. In spiritual things as well, Durant does a truer set on his subject than many a more academic historian. He catches gracefully "the integral spirit" of the age in aptly chosen quotations and lets the earthy irreverence of the era bubble up too, as it does in the credo of Luigi Pulci, a favorite of Lorenzo the Magnificent...
...Land. Out of the Mexican revolution has come both a vigorous new middle class, where nothing like it existed before, and a new rich to take the place of the oldtime aristocracy. Domestic tranquillity, world war and the Alemán era of growth and expansion gave great impetus to the process. The very country has changed and matured, a fact that helps account for the rise of such a leader as Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...creative results of having found itself. Ruiz Cortines, with the backing of the rising middle class, has already changed the republic's standards of public morality. Last week, after his frank survey of Mexico's unsolved food and literacy problems, the magazine Siempre proclaimed it: THE ERA or TRUTH. As such revolutionary ideas as honesty and truth spread through the government, the new President and the new Mexico can look ahead toward an even more fully developed democratic life...
...sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century) when the Romans had just conquered Britain-an era when proper Britons worshipped the sun and painted blue marks on their foreheads to show their rank...