Word: passing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shades of Guebbels and the Propaganda Ministry. Hurrah for Daley and his police force. God help us when things come to pass as our news media would like to see it. I couldn't be paid enough to go into the streets and face what the Chicago police did in their attempt to enforce law and order and protect those who find it so easy to condemn...
...also a measure of the renewed aggressiveness and confidence of the Egyptian army, which has been demonstrating increasing boldness in other ways as well. Bedouins have lately probed deep into the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula, successfully mining major Israeli roads and getting within twelve miles of strategic Mitla Pass. In one raid last month, an Egyptian patrol killed two Israeli soldiers and kid naped a third. Last week Cairo followed up its barrage by proudly announcing a policy of "preventive defense," meaning that "Egyptian forces will no longer allow the enemy to attack first. Egyptians henceforth will launch offensive operations...
...press may not be able to hold out much longer. At Russian insistence, three important magazines-Literárni Listy, Reportér and the intellectual weekly Student-have already been banned. The Czech National Assembly last week was called into session to pass a "temporary" press-control bill that re-establishes censorship. As if to prepare for the event, Russian troops moved out of Czech newspaper offices and permitted journalists to return to their desks-where their activities will be easier to observe and control...
...that one cannot help but sense a morning in it--and be painfully startled by this particular message. The song is a vicious and unqualified rejection of politics-in-the-street and its inevitable aspects of violence and disorder--a style that has been practiced supremely in the recent pass in France and at Chicago...
...housing convention in St. Mary's Hall, sponsored by the Cambridge Econocim Opportunity Committee, nearly 800 persons showed up to pass scores of resolutions aimed at keeping down their rent...