Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the heritage which fell to the present François de Wendel when he was born in 1874. The century into which he grew was to live and die by steel-much of it De Wendel steel...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
...Assembly. The Assembly's 120 members* in turn would write Israel's constitution and act as Israel's parliament. With the Arabs defeated, it remained to be seen how Israel's Jews, who have come together from all corners of the globe, would manage to live in one country...
...matter what a man does for a living, getting old may come to him one day as a terrible shock, Manhattan Geriatrist Martin Gumpert, 51, told the gerontologists. "The recognition of aging," Gumpert explained, "is perhaps the most profound shock of our life span-next to dying." He advised patients to develop intellectual curiosity and independence, and "a well-cultivated faculty of giving up the old and assimilating the new." Doctors, Gumpert said, should treat the "shock" of aging as carefully as any other form of shock. A patient who is getting on should be made to understand that...
...passed after five days of heated debate, Bishop Wurm declared: "The new German Evangelical Church is not yet a mighty cathedral; it is still a modest hut. But it is a hut in which the gospel is at home, and in which all brethren of the Protestant churches may live and grow together...