Word: proclaimingly
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...Cathedral in Johannesburg. As cops of Malan's "Special Branch" looked on, white lawyers, teachers, clergymen and office workers boldly sat side by side with Africans and Indians. Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), a party founder, spoke with apostolic fervor: "For the first time we openly proclaim the things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced only misery for white and black alike . . . Take a step toward the future; don't wait for it to overwhelm...
...more intensified research, fresh insights . . . The scholar's mission requires the study and examination of unpopular ideas, of ideas considered abhorrent and even dangerous . . . Timidity must not lead the scholar to stand silent when he ought to speak . . . In matters of conscience and when he has truth to proclaim the scholar has no obligation to be silent in the face of popular disapproval...
During the revered era of the veteran, student groups used to proclaim their independence loudly and frequently. Yet, apparently some of those same groups now can't escape freedom fast enough...
...show his attitude toward Negroes), Swart needed no props this time to dramatize his proposal. He wanted authority to suspend most of South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part of it, and then suspend all civil rights, censor or suspend the press, prohibit public assembly, confiscate property, search and seize, create concentration camps. Swart could keep the emergency measures in force indefinitely, simply by renewing the proclamation...
...Mohammed Naguib, dressed in simple army tunic, snapped an answering salute. Cannons boomed, then over the loudspeakers came Naguib's voice: "In the name of the people, in the name of its pains and sorrows, in the name of its rights to a free and honest life, I proclaim the birth of an organization which will cement our unity." With that, 22 old political parties died and Egypt became, in effect, a single-party dictatorship guided by Naguib's new Hayat el Tahrir, the Liberation Movement...