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Word: lawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above the law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Question of Conscience | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...program for Cuba, a study commission that ranged across the political spectrum from two Communists to the Archbishop of Caracas was at work on the same problem in Venezuela-where 1.7% of the landholders own 74% of the land. Last week President Romulo Betancourt asked Congress to pass into law the commission's recommendations for a "peaceful, legal and orderly reform." No drastic social surgery, the bill's sensible goal is to force untilled land into cultivation and thereby reduce the $135 million that Venezuela now spends annually to import food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Orderly Land Reform | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...parceling out its own vast holdings, most of it uncleared jungle, and will tax untilled estates so heavily that owners will be encouraged to sell. As a last resort the government will expropriate, but estates under proper cultivation will not be taken over, no matter what their size. "The law is neither leftist nor rightist," says Agriculture Minister Victor Jimenez Landinez. "It is simply just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Orderly Land Reform | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Hookers & Hoofers. To get things off on the right foot, the paper opened the lists to all comers, said they might start either from London or from Paris and use any form of locomotion. The only hooker was that contestants would have to respect local regulations, e.g., the London law forbidding helicopter ascents from the street in front of Marble Arch. Added the Daily Mail, tongue only a trifle in cheek: Who knows? Someone might even find a way to improve the current travel time between Arch and Arc, which now averages about three hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Fun & Frolic | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Miss Thulin plays the daughter-in-law role well, but seems to have been pushed a bit too hard by the director. The supporting parts are well acted...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: 'Wild Strawberries' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

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