Word: rams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico on the passport of a Canadian who had been killed in Spain while fighting with the International Brigade...
...opposition Socialists launched a filibustering delaying action. They declared themselves fearful of "remilitarization," charged that the pact would make Japan a target in some future nuclear war between the West and Communism. When Kishi moved to end the uproar by using his clear majority in the Diet to ram through ratification, the opposition last week took to the streets...
...moment of victory was almost anticlimactic. There was no battering-ram cloture vote to beat Southern filibusters into silence (although the Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April...
...dawn broke on the main day of the festival last week, 20,000 holy men-at least 1,000 of them naked and covered with ashes-made up a procession down to the river with banners and bugles, painted elephants and a brass band. "Jai, jai Ram [Glory to God]!" cried the marchers. Once in the water, they scrubbed themselves furiously and dunked their heads repeatedly-some carrying out elaborate ablutions, praying all the while to the rising sun and dodging the boats bringing other pilgrims out to the point where the rivers meet...
...speech, actually written by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, outlined an agenda for the third session of Canada's 24th Parliament. With his unbeatable conservative majority (208 of the 265 Commons seats), Diefenbaker could undoubtedly ram through virtually any law he wanted, but in prosperous Canada the Prime Minister wants no drastic changes. The speech's most talk-stirring feature was what it left out: for the first time since the Korean war began, Canada's armed forces went unmentioned. Instead, Vanier read-in both English and French -of the government's hope for a "controlled disarmament...