Word: given
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given the lie to the starched double-doubters who had cried that Los Angeles was a gaudy but impractical contraption which would inevitably collapse, trapping swarms of blondes and bare-toed yogis in its wreckage. It has become an industrial giant, has attracted not only new people (949,585 in Los Angeles County since Pearl Harbor), but new money, new business, and $450 million in factories and machinery since...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy watched vigilantly as Hiss's lawyers called an elderly colored woman to the witness stand. She was Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, onetime Hiss housemaid. The Hisses, she testified casually, had once given her children "an old typewriter...
...books, is subjected to preliminary state censorship. State plenipotentiaries are planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion are tested ideologically and are given directives on how to teach religion in the materialist spirit...
...reality, the church was deprived of all possibilities of successful negotiations and given just one choice: submission to dictatorship or persecution ... With gladness would we render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, but we will not sacrifice to him that which...
Every week dozens of new chemicals come to Sloan-Kettering from commercial laboratories, chemical houses, university scientists and medical men. Each is catalogued and given a number (to head off charges of favoritism). The more interesting ones, thought to have strong biological effects, are tried on experimental cancers planted in white mice...