Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macon County's rolls, had never seen a registration form. But he was certain there was no discrimination; white and Negro applicants filled out the same form. Snapped former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, Negro member of the commission: "How would you know if you never saw them?" Replied Varner, flushing: "That's a ridiculous question...
Baar, a devout Lutheran, first saw the Culion leprosy victims during World War II when he was a coast guardsman stationed at Talampulan, 22 miles away. Determined to help them, he used his G.I. Bill to earn a degree in agriculture, took missionary studies at two seminaries, orientation courses at the Carville, La. leprosarium. From Lutheran groups in Missouri he got an appointment to Culion, sailed for the Philippines with a jeep, a garden tractor and a plow...
...into a "free city," nobody knew what else the U.S. thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead of rejecting the Soviet ultimatum outright, the West should...
Almost the only ranking police official to survive Stalin's death and Beria's liquidation, Serov slid into the top security job in 1954. The "collective leadership" of the day wanted to downgrade the police, and Serov knew how to make himself inconspicuous. But Western eyes saw the sandy-haired little man snapping his fingers to summon a Soviet ambassador during B. and K.'s visit to India (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955). When he appeared in Britain in 1956 to prepare security measures there for the touring pair, the British press denounced him so vehemently as "Ivan...
...Mild Gentleman. The Arabs who first made this discovery were the Baath Socialists, who are particularly strong in Iraq and Syria. It was their Syrian leader, Vice President Akram Hourani, who saw the Communists about to come to power in Syria and, to prevent it, rushed Syria into union with Egypt. And it was the Baath Socialists in Iraq, emerging as the chief anti-Communist and pro-Nasser force in the country, who were the chief victims of Kassem's roundup of conspirators in Baghdad last week. In Cairo, Saeb Salam, who led Nasserite forces in the recent Lebanese...