Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year-old Ringleader Gustav Etzelt. Significantly, most of the arrested young neo-Nazi hooligans were in their early 20s, too young really to know what the Hitler era had been like...
...corruption in the Garcia regime. But effective opposition to Garcia's Nacionalistas is hamstrung by the existence of several major parties in Philippine politics. Besides Macapagal's Liberal Party, there is the Progressive Party, headed by Manny Manahan, another of the bright young men of the Magsaysay era. Somehow, Manahan and Macapagal could never agree to combine forces, and Old Pol Garcia maneuvered to keep them apart...
...19th and early 20th centuries brought many modernizing attempts; schools of medicine and engineering were added, admission and teaching requirements were set up, class attendance became obligatory. But al-Azhar remained engulfed in the past. As World War II, the Palestine war, and revolution forced Egypt toward the modern era, al-Azhar began to lose its universal respect...
Died. Reginald Arkell, 76, British novelist (Old Herbaceous), poet, editor and author of numerous musical revues including 1066 and All That; in Cricklade, England. Lampooning the U.S. Prohibition era, Arkell once presented the Statue of Liberty on the London stage with a bottle of whisky in her right hand, fended off transatlantic complaint with the reflection: "Americans made themselves ridiculous over Prohibition without any assistance from...
...changed at all, but life has. The Iowa that was her childhood home is still the source of her fictional truth. In The John Wood Case, her first book in seven years, the period is Teddy Roosevelt's time, and the theme is the morality of that era...