Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead. They were all strong Presidents and magnified the powers of the executive at the expense of other branches of government. All but Washington fell into conflict with the Supreme Court, and all were consistently lambasted by the press. They were also alike in one other respect-they endured the rigors of office confident of being accorded an honored place in history...
They also liked what George Drew had to say in English. In autonomy-minded Quebec, he had picked just the right topic: provincial rights. "Our Canadian unity depends on respect for the rights of the individual provinces," he cried. "The province of Quebec has special reasons for insisting on the sanctity of the British North America Act-the preservation of its language, civil law, religious rights and customs." These, said George (amid cheers) "must not be disturbed if we are to have true national unity in Canada." He accused the Liberals of overtaxing "by nearly a billion dollars this year...
...spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...