Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The second advantage would follow from this curb on unsubstantiated attack. If witnesses had an assured chance to answer charges publicly, many would be far less eager to seek refuge in the Fifth Amendment. This, in turn, would save committees from having to call fifty witnesses to get one page...
Rhee insisted that the President should be chosen by vote of the people. The Assembly said no. Rhee declared martial law, had his cops arrest twelve Assemblymen, charged them with being Communist plotters, and sent a mob of his supporters to storm the Assembly chamber. Aspirant Chang took refuge in...
Dickey said that the events of the past six years have justified the position he took in 1947 of not knowingly appointing communists to academic posts. Higher education, he affirmed, will only prosper if it is carried on by men who have no need to take refuge behind the Fifth...
The plot is essentially uncomplicated: a little girl, having seen her parents machine-gunned to death by a German plane as they fled across France in 1940, becomes obsessed with ideas of death and burial. She and a boy from the family with whom she takes refuge build a cemetery...
The big news on Formosa last week was a visiting celebrity: Dr. Hu Shih, China's most respected scholar, who was concluding his first visit to Formosa since that strategic island became the Nationalist refuge and stronghold. Scholar Hu (who has been leading the scholarly life in New York...