Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government-subsidized bus company, which started the trouble by upping its fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care of by a special fund raised by the employers and merchants of Johannesburg, who cared far less for the principles involved than for the man-hours and sales they were losing in the dispute...
...cases and locked up in the Ottoman Bank at Amman, Jordan, from which they were returned to Jerusalem for study only last month-some of them slightly moldy and spotted from the damp vault. (Complete photographs of the manuscript material exist, but direct examination is necessary to the delicate process of matching and fitting fragments...
...poet's description of a night's boating on the Yangtze River near Huang-chou, culminating in the dramatic moment when the poet saw two cranes fly by (later revealed in a dream to have been two Taoist immortals). The painting is now in the ceremonial process of being declared one of Japan's national treasures...
...importance of the controversy, is deficient in its remedies. Eisenhower's feeling that a constitutional discussion must be resolved by an amendment indicates a certain unnecessary contempt for the stature of Congressional legislation. In the present case, immediate legislation is not only more necessary than the protracted amendment process, but is also sufficient on legal grounds to meet a crisis should it occur...
...twirling Dancer, a dauntless Rodinish woman, her hair flying, fists raised, called Defense. The lines of the figures flow freely and lyrically, and most of them have a baroque turbulence. They express a new Lipchitz, but one who refuses to stay put. "I do not intend to turn this process into a durable way of working," says he. "I hope my obsession with semiautomatics will give me the freedom to go on to other things...