Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under state law, Long could not have been involuntarily committed in Louisiana while still Governor. He would first have had to be impeached, a lengthy process which, while running its course, would have left an obviously irresponsible man at the head of the state...
...Fulfilling a campaign pledge, he won release from custody of eight leaders of his party's extremist wing. On emerging from Changi prison, where they had been held since the 1956 riots, the eight signed a joint statement pledging "the attainment of party aims and objectives through constitutional process...
...measure the world about him with the new yardstick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he must remeasure himself. If the Jewish student has not finally firmly established roots, if he has not created a self-image, the process can be disconcerting...
...Direct Approach. The men who raised the banner of European unity in the years just after World War II had no such subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
...Bottomley whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils of Reconstruction-just as soon as Author Basso gets around to writing the third novel of his planned trilogy about Pomoey's Head...