Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaim that [the rebel leaders] will have the same place as all others -no more, no less- the hearing, the share, the place granted them by the votes of the citizens. Why then should the odious strife and fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately...
...calls us into his Church to accept the cost and joy of discipleship, to be his servants in the service of men, to proclaim the Gospel to all the world and resist the powers of evil, to share in Christ's baptism and eat at his table, to join him in his passion and victory...
...first Premier last November, he felt in no position to test his strength in a popular vote. His archrival, Jacques Opangault, who barely missed getting the job himself, persistently demanded general elections, but Premier Youlou refused, using his meager majority of one vote in the Legislative Assembly to proclaim himself in control until 1962. The political squabble touched off bloody rioting that in February left more than 100 dead in Brazzaville's native quarters...
Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...
...television industry seems to have the notion on occasion that it is a tribe of electronic Watusi. too tall to recognize anyone but giants. At award time each spring, the critics bow before Hope, proclaim faith in Dinah, show charity toward Sullivan. Last week the Peabody Awards committee changed TV scripture by singling out a cheery and engaging local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition...