Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current trend away from democratic institutions, Turkey took a decisive and dangerous step. Last week Premier Adnan Menderes jammed through Parliament a bill outlawing all political meetings except those held 45 days prior to a general election. Since Turkey has elections only once every four years, Menderes was effectively denying his people the elementary right of freedom of assembly. Following closely upon his press-muzzling laws, the new act raised the question: Where is Menderes heading...
...attention to South Carolina's maneuver of recessing its state Democratic convention until after Chicago instead of adjourning. This procedure theoretically would allow the Southerners to walk out of a hostile national convention and reconvene as a third party. Timmerman also suggested darkly that Southern Democrats should caucus prior to Chicago...
Khrushchev's charge that Stalin had been anti-Semitic and had liquidated thousands of Soviet Jews. Nor was there specific mention in the transcript issued by the U.S. of the "murder" of Marshal Tukhachevsky and some 5,000 officers of the Red army prior to World...
Florida and federal authorities are taking no chances. The fly was reported first on April 14 by Orlo L. Prior of Miami, who found a maggoty grapefruit in his backyard. Not until April 22 was the discovery publicly announced, and by then the fly had made considerable progress. It has now moved northward into Palm Beach County, and has been reported from Alcoma, in the citrus belt...
...Prior to the formal debates of the 1890s, a series of undergraduate discussion groups extended back into the 18th century, including the Hasty Pudding Club, organized to "argue and eat corn meal mush." Meeting secretly in a student's room, one group, the "Society of Resident Graduates," in 1792 argued "Freedom for the West Indian Negros," "The Principal Design of Conversation," and "Does a Theatre Corrupt the Morals of the People" The Harvard Union (of 1831) stands out briefly among a number of similar ephemeral groups...