Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman owns a steak tenderizer (imported from Manhattan's R. H. Macy) and a political machine (modeled on Manhattan's Tammany Hall). Both function smoothly. During his eight years of office, President Tubman has extended the vote to Liberia's women and the hinterland tribesmen, but he also got Liberia's constitution amended to permit the President to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms. Tubman's True Whig Party, representing the descendants of the 15,000 freed U.S. slaves who first settled the nation, has ruled over Liberia almost...
...when they saw it, acclaimed Eva wildly. Instead of just "Perón! Peron!" the people cried: "Perón! Perón! Evita!" in the big square before the palace. Under her driving command, the big General Confederation of Labor became a docile Pe-ronista instrument, its main function reduced to carrying out orders and staging periodic mass demonstrations in the square. To a friend, Perón confided: "Evita deserves a medal for what she's done for labor. She's worth more to me than five ministers...
...recommendations of Provost Buck's committee on religion point up a serious lack in the curriculum of this university: the absence of a broad General Education course in the field of modern religion. The fact that religious systems exist in all cultures indicates that they serve an important function to mankind. The study of our own religion is certainly important enough to warrant a course in it; our religion deserves study both as a part of our cultural heritage (as does literature, for instance), and as an area of personal importance to every student...
...that. "The air and naval forces that were at my disposal out there were only operating at a fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
...made to bomb the Soviet legation last February, Shehu put Tirana under nightly curfew, ordered his police to shoot on sight anyone seen in the streets, set up secret courts to dispose of suspects. Shehu, known as "the butcher," commands a well-equipped army of 70,000, whose main function is maintaining internal order...