Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrists the Archbishop placed the Armills, or "Bracelets of sincerity and wisdom," over her shoulders was draped the golden Pallium, symbol of "the robe of righteousness and the garments of salvation." And to remind the monarch that "the whole world is subject to the Power and Empire of Christ our Redeemer," the Dean of Westminster presented her with the Orb, a golden globe surmounted by a cross...
...riot squad was called out in Naples to quiet down a mutinous theater audience and remind Crooner Frank Sinatra that the show must go on. Billed to appear with his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner, Frankie had already left a matinee crowd grumbling by showing up without Ava (supposedly ailing in Milan). The excitable evening customers, who had paid $5 to $7.50 for their seats, hooted and hollered when Sinatra - still solo - walked off after singing one song. Police restored or der, persuaded him to finish...
...sometime journalist and poet and now aide to Socialist Mayor Brauer of Hamburg, has waged a one-man campaign to remind Germans of the enormity of the Nazi crimes against Jews, helped campaign for a restitution payment ($822 million, most of it to be paid to the Israel government), persuaded thousands of Germans to sign declarations acknowledging the onus of national guilt, and launched a campaign among schoolchildren to plant 10,000 olive trees in Israel...
Because the rights of the unpopular were carefully written into the United States Constitution, the federal courts have always been stumbling blocks to temporary majorities. Whether the contemporary crusade has been liberal or conservative, courts have usually fulfilled their obligation to remind the public that no cause, no matter how popular, can exceed the limits of the Constitution...
...coverage has been so one-sided that the small fraction of communist or former communist instructors seem to many representative of faculties in general. "By every test of war and peace," the report states, "universities have proven themselves indispensable instruments of cultural progress and national welfare." This statement should remind the public that the stream of research, products, and experts flowing from the universities to Washington has done more to strengthen the nation than the comparative trickle of red influence has poisoned...