Word: oppress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French authorities for the loan of a few peasants to ill treat...
Although the U. S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press against statutory attack, there is only one Federal law which guarantees it against attack by individuals. This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote...
...isolationist in foreign affairs, Beard had personal experience of idealistic dabbling in European matters when he served as adviser to the Yugoslavian Government in 1927-28. Serbs appreciated his advice, but continued to oppress Croats, Macedonians, Hungarians. "That cured me," Beard says. He thinks Europe is just a big Balkans, that Americans can never solve Europe's problems. A long-term optimist, Beard believes that Fascism cannot come to the U. S. "Democracy," says he, "is a cause that is never won, but I believe it will never be lost...
...status quo, with disastrous results. Time is slowly proving to a reluctant Europe that the "status quo" can not be embalmed in such fashion, and that an uneven balance of power can never be maintained through multi-lateral pacts, unless war be used as an international black-jack to oppress the weaker nation. Belgium, realizing that too close an alignment with France may draw her into war with countries with which she has no direct quarrel, has clear sightedly chosen the independent path...
...strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that...