Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the reformers made another try in the House of Commons, and were countered by Misery Martin with petitions bearing 512,735 signatures. People who want to reform the traditional British Sunday, complained one lady educator, are those who say: "Reading bores us, walking and cycling tire us, family reunions irritate us, museums and picture galleries are too clever for us, and the BBC sometimes expects us to concentrate our attention." The House rejected the reforms by a vote...
Even Eternal Rome was beginning to wonder if it was eternal enough to outlast the filibuster in Italy's parliament. For 37 days the Communists had hog-tied the Chamber of Deputies with their desperate war against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill...
...clock one morning last week, after 67 hours of unrelieved parliamentary inferno, the Chamber came to a vote. The 180 Communists and fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni's faction marched out without voting. The rest voted 339 to 25 to approve the electoral reform bill, and sent it on to the Senate. Foresighted attendants transferred the emergency cots to the anterooms of the Senate...
...went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern, and then reform a few minutes later...
...first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...