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Word: musts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would be no civil wedding first. Belgian Socialists cried out that the constitution was being flouted, pointed to Article 16 which declares that civil marriage must precede the religious ceremony. The Vatican held firm: either no civil wedding or no papal ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Prevalence of Kings | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under the second Leopold) occupied by royal mistresses. The government's countersuggestion: the Belgian royal villa at Grasse in Southern France, far from Laeken and King Baudouin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Prevalence of Kings | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy is a matter of great patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Democracy Is Patience | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...nine weeks Singapore's tropical nights have been loud with the sounds of political campaigning, bright with electric signs spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Bold Experiment | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...saluted his election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain's huge military base, though this, he made clear, must follow a merger with the neighboring independent Federation of Malaya, and would take perhaps "five, ten, 15 or 20 years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Bold Experiment | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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