Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man in a conspicuously Western suit rose before India's bored Constituent Assembly. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Law Minister and chairman of the constitutional drafting committee, was proposing the eleventh of the new Indian Constitution's 315 articles: "Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of untouchability shall be an offense punishable according...
...ministers pledged themselves to continue the policies of their predecessors-only more "moderately." Union leaders (almost all now released from jail) and other Acción members declared that they would form an open opposition to the Junta as soon as constitutional guarantees were restored. Said a spokesman for Junta President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud: "Democratic elections will take place. But right now the new government is busy trying ... to put everything on an efficient administrative basis, and above all to establish an atmosphere of tolerance before the elections." As the first step toward those elections, the Junta dissolved the national...
...York City Opera Company went out on the road, and in Chicago got the kind of ermine-and-top-hat opening it never gets at home. It was the only opera Chicagoans would see all year. But if Chicago and the visiting opera company liked each other, they might form a partnership...
...Federal Council, in its "Statement on Human Rights," went on record as opposing Jim Crow in any form-and called for equal, nonsegregated participation of all races in all phases of the "social and public life of the community," including housing, education, recreation, transportation and businesses serving the public "such as stores, theaters, hotels and restaurants...
...Leverett House basketbal team may look like four little men bounding round a maypole, but it threw such a scare into highly-favored Lowell Friday that the Bellboys managed to find their predicted form only in the last few minutes, to win finally...