Word: se
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Difficult questions arise when a witness is asked if he now is or ever has been a member of the Communist party. The Internal Security Act of 1950 provides 'Neither the holding of office nor membership in any Communist organization by any person shall constitute per se a violation of...this section or of any other criminal statute.' Whether this refers only to federal statutes or was intended to include state statutes as well is not clear, but the section tends to militate against immunity when the question is asked with reference to a federal offense. Certainly the fact that...
...strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...
...adventure began when three husky bucks leaped at him from the brush beside the trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...
...blonde named Evita, who married Juan Peron and became the most powerful woman of her time. In 1946, at Evita's suggestion, Soap Salesman Juan became Peron's No. 1 secretary. Though he liked to hit the nightclubs of Buenos Aires with an endless chain of slick señoritas, Bachelor Duarte never became much of a public figure. But over the years, he prospered wondrously. Rigged deals on the stock exchange, a cut on imported cars and machinery, black-market operations in meat enabled him to buy country estates complete with private airfields. A lavish party...
...unions call me a fascist," says Crawford, "but I have nothing against unions per se. [He now has both A.F.L. and C.I.O. unions in companies he has bought.] But if a union merely wants our people just to increase its membership it has no place here. But if a union leader can show me how to improve production, resulting in better wages, and increase workers' enthusiasm, I'll love...