Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the congressional battle over the Powell Amendment winds on, the need for a federally-supported school construction program grows more urgent. The bill to grant such aid is dangerously near extinction. The immediate need for government aid to education should overbalance the desire for Congressional enforcement of the desegregation...
Shinto seemed headed for extinction. Yet one of the most important facts about Japan today is Shinto's surprising rebirth.
Progressively thereafter, he ordered the city's nightclubs to close at 2 a.m., regulated the striptease trade to extinction, and ordered the swimming pool at the Cercle Sportif, Asia's leading parade ground for bikinis, to close through the dry season.
If they ever learn their lesson, it will not be from Arthur Koestler. He has had it. Says Koestler: "This ... is a farewell to arms ... I have said all I had to say on these questions [that have] obsessed me, in various ways, for the best part of a quarter...
Wherever he went Talbot tried to find out how the threatened animals live and how they can be protected. In some cases he thinks he aroused local sympathy In one case he found that native beliefs are working in the animals' favor. The Burmese brow-antlered deer was recently...