Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flag Communists led by a fair-skinned, 25-year-old girl named Bo Moe Kyi (Officer Clear Sky) swept down at dawn and quietly took over from the police. In the presence of the town elders, Clear Sky removed 60,000 rupees from the government treasury, burned all legal records at the courthouse and emptied the jail...
...kind of story that Eleanor Medill Patterson, who liked her news on the dramatic side, would have enjoyed telling-on someone else. Her death had plunged her Washington Times-Herald and the seven employees to whom she left it, into a confusing legal tangle, with overtones of violence...
When Judge Goldberg denied the motion, the attorneys went through the legal motion of "taking exceptions" and are now in a position to appeal the sentence...
...restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...
...sailing: "The free nations of the world enter this year's meeting of the General Assembly stronger and more firmly united than at any time since the end of the war." True, the unity and purpose of the free (as opposed to the slave) nations had the extra-legal aspect of a vigilance committee; but there had been other times when public morality expressed through vigilantes had been the necessary forerunner of the rule of formal...