Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Helen Suzman is the only member of the South African Parliament who has consistently opposed the government's apartheid policies. After 15 years in Parliament, she has amassed an impressive record of runins with the Afrikaners and remains the only visible liberal hold-out against one of the world's most reactionary regimes...
...Shorts. Once Parliament decided to switch, Swedish bureaucracy mobilized with terrifying efficiency. Psychologists made studies of drivers and pedestrians; traffic engineers surveyed Sweden's 70,000 miles of roadway from Malmo to remotest Lapland. Thousands of new signs and traffic lights were ordered and every home, hospital and prison received manuals detailing the 107 basic European road symbols that would replace the helter-skelter Swedish markers. To make sure foreign workers and visitors got the message, the Commission on Right-Hand Traffic printed pamphlets in nine languages from Portuguese to Serbo-Croatian...
...past three years have been beaming pop music into the British Isles from makeshift studios on rusty ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit. True to his word, Short last month helped push a piece of legislation through Parliament which, by making it a criminal offense to supply advertising, food or ships to the outlaw stations, successfully torpedoed the pirate fleet. A bloody catastrophe, wailed many of the 20 million listeners who each week tuned in to hear the latest in the big beat scene. Where can they turn...
...18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts, the Rotunda, Leinster House (where the Parliament now sits) are monuments to a gracious age. Even the railway stations, when at last the railway came, are beautiful. Dublin, too, has some horrendous slums, but from them emerge some of the most beautiful-and dirty-children in Europe...
...away. Some of Athens' theater audiences are peppered with relatives of army officers who get free tickets to keep the attendance up. Even so, the censors are vigilant. In a play in Athens, an actor drew unexpected applause when he recited, "I shall complain to my Deputy in Parliament." Censors snipped out the line before the next performance. In another play, a woman whose husband had left her joyfully cried: "Now I am free!" The audience cheered. The line was quickly changed to "Now I am carefree...