Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely Democratic, its membership is to a great extent Republican. In Cambridge, however, these Republicans might have been Democrats, had not the Democratic party been largely a party controlled by Irish and Italian Catholics. An obvious parallel to the Cambridge situation is the earlier (Mayor Curleyera) Back Bay Republican reform element, which still spasmodically asserts itself in Boston politics...
...elements which defeated Bourges-Manoury's reform bill last Monday, the idea of eventual Algerian autonomy is anathema. Even though the bill provided only for a possible federative system of internal government in which the European colonials would keep a measure of power, it was unacceptable to the deputies who see France as she was at the height of Napoleon's Empire. This romanticism combined with the unrelenting opposition of the wealthy colonials now in control of Algeria combined to defeat the one measure short of immediate independence which might have been acceptable to the Algerian National Liberation Front...
Through the years, Chinese students have often led the way for their elders, sounded the bell that called China to reform and revolt. And this time, said Hu, "the response was almost unanimous from all student bodies in every part of China -from Mukden to Canton, from Shanghai and Nanking in the east to Chungking and Chengtu in the west...
Successful Failure. Robert LaFayette Cox has been on the run for the better part of his life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
...student body's attempt to reform the social code, however, was rather nebulous. The proposals barred organized house-parties between the hours of 3 and 9 in the morning but did not prohibit mixed company during these hours. Rather, they were supposedly designed to create an atmosphere which would encourage the male to go to sleep...