Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation where they are outnumbered four to one, wanted to get the last non-white voters-the 45,000 colored (mixed-race) folk-off the white voting lists. The High Court said he could not, without a two-thirds vote in Parliament. So the Nationalists decided to pack the Senate to get the bill through, and to pack the court to make sure that it was held constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance disagreed with what he was doing to South Africa's legal and political traditions. The official opposition...
...knows yet where cosmic ray particles come from. A few may originate in rare solar "flares," but most of them come from farther space. The fastest particles pack an enormous punch, up to 1016 ev (10 million billion electron volts) of energy. To accelerate a flea to this speed, said Neher, would require all the energy released by a hydrogen bomb...
...bring about a joint session of Parliament to reconsider bills deemed by the Senators to be unwise. For four years the Senate held out against Nationalist attack. But the Nationalists of tough, gimlet-eyed Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, in control of the Assembly, were able to enlarge and pack the Senate with their nominees and rob the review chamber of its powers...
...Among those using less than a pack a day, 128 deaths...
Died. Bill Vukovich, 36, two-time winner (1953 and 1954) of the Memorial Day Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race; in a five-car pile-up as he led the pack on the 57th lap (see SPORT...