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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight, Cairo was ablare with importuning speeches and ablaze with beseeching banners. One candidate had already unmasked a rival as an "American agent," and the rival was desperately taking ads in the papers to protest his 100% Egyptianism. Another was laying siege to coffeehouse customers with a tape-recorded tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Going to the People | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

THE most shameful moment of national life in Latin America comes when a military dictator strikes out the nearly standard constitutional provision forbidding a President to succeed himself, and prolongs his own term. When that moment came last week in Colombia, civilians-students, bankers and priests-told the strongman to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

When the Overseers' "Report on the Visual Arts" made its appearance last year, it attracted enthusiastic attention nationally and raised hopes at Harvard for a revision of the fine arts program. Last week, an eightman faculty committee vetoed what that report had called its "major recommendation," provision for a "Division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts and the Artist | 5/17/1957 | See Source »

Political Realist Brownell knows how desperate a fight the South's congressional bloc will make against his program. He recognizes the extent of his personal, out-front involvement. But even if he could, he would not now retire to a back room. For the Attorney General is the servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Back-Room Man Out Front | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

*With a single exception, trial by jury has never been required in contempt cases to which the U.S. Government was a party. The exception: the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932 required jury trials in contempt proceedings arising from labor disputes. The provision was in effect repealed (with the enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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