Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe. The Pope consciously showed that his church was above the war by choosing three cardinals each from victorious France, defeated Germany and neutral, totalitarian Spain. But once more he was practical as well as spiritual: in France and Germany he took care to pick shining lights of the resistance. Outstanding selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life...
...skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet. The only really distinctive style note was the transitory costume-half uniform, half civilian clothes-of discharged servicemen. The new automobile, refrigerator, and radiant heating system were still just pictures in advertisements; whiskey was 65% neutral grain spirits, and butter was hard to find...
After the Army-Navy game, where onetime Artillery Captain Truman was officially neutral but personally rooting for the Army, the President took the club members on the first trip of his new yacht Williamsburg. They cruised overnight, ate wild rice and curry, came back next day under sunny skies...
Punishments. Björling, a neutral, was one of Europe's few front-rank musicians who got through the war without either suffering or collaborating with the enemy...
...Radical, Democratic, Social Democratic). Opposition leaders demanded that the present election law be amended to conform with the Constitution (i.e., minimum voting age be raised from 19 to 21, minimum age for candidates from 23 to 30), insisted that the key Ministry of the Interior be transferred to a "neutral" incumbent...