Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when time came for the crucial vote in which the Assembly was to send itself on vacation and grant him untrammeled power for six months, De Gaulle personally shepherded the measure through, even won admiring guffaws from members of a system he despised by an ironic reference to "the pleasure and honor that I find in being with you tonight...
...safeguards under the law. All leading Soviet jurists now brand as "erroneous" the specious justifications by which the late Andrei Vishinsky, Stalin's top prosecutor, 1) upheld police terror, 2) used confessions alone to prove guilt, and 3) when no law applied, invoked other laws "by analogy" to send innumerable men to death or slavery in the theatrical purge trials...
...Warden Ross V. Randolph: "The prison publication is a morale builder, a source of enlightenment, and a medium to educate the public-on the fact that prisoners are people." For such a purpose, the wardens are inclined to suffer occasional lapses in ethical journalism-such as convicts who send messages to their lady friends outside under the guise of news items...
...levelheaded record of the advice he gave his advisers. He could write a letter to a brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing he could do directly for his people, and that he did. Londoners will never forget...
...Russians start a colony on the moon. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Eisenhower says. The United States sends up an Atlas missile with a tape-recording of Christmas carols. The Russians send up a rocket which plays the "Internationale." Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn send up a rocket which broadcasts Pepsi commercials. The Cambridge parking situation is alleviated by sending Al Vellucci up in a rocket. Dean Sherman Adams reports that he is taking the proposal that typing be permitted on final examinations under advisement...