Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police bill had already passed the lower house, and Yoshida had the votes to pass it in the upper house as well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...
...have a trepidation that something serious and dire was going to happen to the Army?" Chairman Mundt asked. Replied the colonel: "I have always been of the opinion that the American Army can take care of itself, but I don't like to see somebody take a hold of it and try to do something...
Lorwin, who had quit the Socialist Party in 1938, denied that he had ever had the slightest sympathetic connection with the Communists. He says: "I happen to have years of rather cantankerous anti-Communist activity on my record long before it became fashionable to be anti-Communist...
Next day university authorities took the horse down, carted it away to a place of safekeeping, and student tempers calmed. Pattison's did not. Said he: "It's degrading to have that happen to anyone's idea . . . The university took quite a courageous step in . . . having me come down here and work in the first place . . . Now I think their action in taking the horse down and hiding it is cowardly . . . I feel terrible." But Pattison decided to keep right on trying. Said he: "I'm not going to be chased out of this...
...with their office. "Theirs is not to reason why" is as apt motto for the bench as it is for the Light Horse. Their opinions, whether the legislation involves their own jobs or someone else's, must be limited to determining the legislature's intention, and not what they happen to think of the measure. Whether this detached attitude toward legislation is always possible may be doubtful, but the least one can expect is a single-minded effort on the part of the judges to acquire...