Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, the N.A.A.C.P. finally moved to shore up the strong-bill position of House Republican Leader Joe Martin. Wired N.A.A.C.P. Washington Director Clarence Mitchell to Martin: "Your efforts to obtain passage of a civil rights bill in the House have been and still are of great value and are deeply appreciated . . . We have never felt that the Senate bill was sufficiently strong...
...neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...
...there crowd in upon us today memories of the historic events which have occurred in this great chamber, signalizing as they do the efforts of men to gain and preserve freedom. We recall the panoply of events during which the individual, by dint of hard and persistent struggles to obtain his cherished rights, gradually secured them from the forces of power and privilege...
...about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated as versions of Greek myths not only retain the desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity and universal suggestiveness); but the imaginative power of the classic myth enables modern authors to invest their works with poetic dialogue--very difficult to obtain in works concerned with the harsh realism of the bourgeois environment and twentieth-century man's lust for material gain...
...obtain confessions from the doctors we will shorten you by a head." The doctors were arrested and charged with having murdered Politburocrats Zhdanov and Shcherbakov and having attempted to poison some top Red marshals...