Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least since the gate was built--the custom has been to lock it on the dot of six in the evening. At best this was but a feeble gesture toward protecting the Yard, comparable to stopping up one hole in a sieve. All the other gates blatantly proclaim welcome to the crafty artisans of the night. It was only natural that the present inhabitants of the Yard, carrying on the greater part of their social and scholastic activities in the Houses, should request that this custom be temporarily suspended...
...crucial meeting in March 1940 Jinnah first publicly plumped for Pakistan.* A hundred thousand followers thronged into the shade of a huge pandal (big tent) in Lahore, where the League was meeting, overflowed into the scorching heat outside, heard Jinnah proclaim over the loudspeaker: ". . . The only course open to us all is to allow the major nations [of India] to separate to their homelands." He warned that any democratic government in a unified India which gave Moslems a permanent minority "must lead to civil war and the raising of private armies." An enthusiastic woman follower tore off her veil, came...
Roxas would not claim that he is a pro-American today if the Japs were still in the Philippines. Renegades like Roxas who collaborated with the Japs now proclaim they were pro-Americans. As Orientals they worship the victor...
Tyranny has reduced many countries ("some of which are very powerful") to dictator states. "We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights...
Something Borrowed. Emperor Meiji's 1889 Constitution had proclaimed that "We [the Emperor] have inherited from Our Ancestors the rights of sovereignty . . . and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants." MacArthurian rhetoric, linking the phrases of Jefferson, Lincoln, and F.D.R., gave Japan a new ruler. "We, the Japanese people . . . do proclaim the sovereignty of the people's will." The Emperor was reduced to a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people's will." Young Prince Akihito may still inherit a throne, but not a seat of power...