Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicly offend against the honor or dignity of the government." To defend the government's retention of these Fascist laws, Christian Democratic leaders from the late Alcide de Gasperi on pointed to the internal Communist threat to Italian democracy. Simultaneously, the Demo-Christians quietly stalled all moves to establish a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the constitution specified. So long as there was no such court, nobody could strip the government of its powers...
...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles loafed along in last place for nearly a mile, then galloped full-out down the stretch to win the 88th running of the $119,650 Belmont Stakes last week and establish his claim as the nation's best three-year...
...movement brought a wave of millennialism, and with it the notion that for Christ's second coming the Jews must be liberated and perhaps even converted. Cromwell, impressed less with the Messianic than the political and economic advantages of taking the Jews back, allowed them to resettle and establish a synagogue (though no formal decree was ever issued...
...Premier Guy Mollet, like most of his Socialists, was acutely uncomfortable with his program of repression. Without publicity, the government has been trying to establish unofficial contact with rebel leaders. Last March, French Union Councilor Georges Gorse, a former Socialist deputy married to an Egyptian, traveled to Cairo, ostensibly to discuss trade but actually to meet the members of the National Liberation Front in their Cairo headquarters. More recently, French representatives unofficially got in touch with the rebels' military leader, Mohammed Ben Bella, on one of his trips to Madrid. So far there has been no progress, since...
...After botching the first set, lanky Althea Gibson of New York's Harlem conquered her jitters and her longtime nemesis, California's Louise Brough, to win the Northern Women's Singles title in Manchester, England, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, and establish herself as the favorite to win next month's Wimbledon championship...