Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decrees were stiff, and even stiffer ones would surely follow. Ironsi warned of the "many sacrifices, however painful" that would be required, demanding "not only the cooperation, but the discipline of every Nigerian...
...many Florida lawmen cofidently predicted that a crime wave was sure to follow Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned for all American indigents the right to free trial counsel in felony cases. The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had been tried without lawyers, and, just as the lawmen expected, by 1965 Gideon v. Wainwright had freed more than 1,000 Florida prisoners. But predictions of a resultant crime wave, says the Florida Division of Corrections, have turned out to be all wrong...
Fascinated by the color theories of the French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul, La Farge searched along the same lines that the impressionists were to follow. He wrote: "I wished to apply principles of light and color of which I had learned a little. I wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also...
...fine loony beginning for a high comedy in period style, but the flashbacks that follow bring Lady L to a spotty end. Her confession story, plucked from Romain Gary's novel by protean Writer-Director Peter Ustinov (who also spills out of a minor role as an addled Bavarian prince), describes how a scrumptious Parisian laundress rises to greatness as the wife of David Niven, one of England's most debonair lords. En route to her destiny. Sophia is delayed briefly in a bordello, which has chambers designed for train buffs or Arabian Knights. There she meets Paul...
...Harvard's Navy unit expects to swell from 74 to 126 this year, and mostly in two-year enrollments. The Air Force, composed of six cadets, now offers only two-year contracts, and has received 100 applications for summer camp. The Army expects similar increases, while the Marines generally follow changes in Navy enrollment...