Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walker postdated his ban to Feb. 28, and counsel for Esquire hastily laid plans for suit this week to overturn "a far-reaching, arbitrary, capricious decision by which one man sets himself up to decide what is in the public welfare." Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich broadly hinted of group pressure on Catholic Mr. Walker. Said he: "[The Postmaster General] possibly had a commitment to carry out somebody else's wishes." From Catholic Bishop John Francis Noll (of Fort Wayne, Ind.), as chairman of the National Organization for Decent Literature, came a statement: "Esquire not even on our disapproved list...
...floor, substitute pay-as-you-go reduced to its simplest terms, in a modified version of the Ruml plan. Sense as well as strategy was on their side, for many a disgusted Democrat would not vote for the committee bill. The possibility was not remote that the House might overturn its no-longer-august tax-making committee...
...occupying force could hope to overturn the economy of a country, he said, and expect to control that country very efficiently. Thus, we have had to work with the Vichy-established, and in many cases fascist-inspired, local political setup and make the best...
...British squadron leader described the carnage: "As we came in to drop the first stick, trucks careened madly off the road. It looked absolutely crazy. I saw one overturn and troops run like cockroaches-colliding, jumping headfirst into patches of scrub or any hole they could find." Said General Auby Strickland, chief of U.S. bombers in the desert, who led one formation of planes in pursuit of the German columns: "[Our bombers] turned and sailed down the road, spilling their bombs on vehicles and men. I never saw such a scene of destruction...
...raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed him . . . and we rolled around. . . . The raft lurched and he went over...