Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
...thing about Charles Keene. His sole aim in life was to make Punch readers laugh, and he was often desperate for jokes to illustrate. When someone offered a good idea, Keene invariably repaid the favor by generously sending him the original drawing. Only in his last years did it occur to him that they might be valuable, and even then he rarely charged...
With delegate shifts bound to occur almost daily from now on, such calculations are far from foolproof. But they illustrate how an Eisenhower victory can be achieved despite Taft's control of the convention machinery. They also show why the battle over the contested delegations, particularly the Texas 38, is so bitter. The votes that mean victory may well come from the contested seats...
...enclosures, where they were searched and fingerprinted. During the cleanup nearly 800 anti-Communists had escaped from Communist control and were safely segregated, and more than 100 ringleaders in kangaroo-court murders had been identified, dragged out and isolated. It seemed physically impossible that any further mass rebellion could occur. Reported "Bull" Boatner: "The worst is over...
Normally, he explains, the atmosphere grows cooler as altitude increases, but under some conditions it may contain layers of warm air with cold air below them. These are called "inversions." They occur in all climates but are commonest in deserts, where both the ground and the air get very hot in daytime. As soon as the sun sets, the ground cools off, radiating its warmth into the sky. The air for a few feet up grows cool by contact with the cool earth, but the air a little higher stays warm...