Word: sent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to an execution and got their facts as twisted as the apostles in the Bible report, they would be fired forthwith. I want no religious songs. This is going to be a perfectly rational funeral...
...Magic of Action. In Paris for three days, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West German Republic and the Saar territory to the Council as an "associate member." But on almost every other question the ministers passed the buck to U.N., to OEEC and other organizations...
...last they tottered into Ladakh's capital. The Indian army made them comfortable for the night and sent out yaks for their abandoned baggage. Last week a U.S. embassy plane flew the travelers into Delhi. They had covered some 2,500 miles in ten weeks. John Hall Paxton was ready for his vacation...
...numbered? Would the Chinese Reds seize it? Back in Lisbon, Premier Salazar said: "It remains to be seen whether reason will be able to avoid violence and whether the path of respect, of rights and of conciliation of interests can be found." More than a month ago, Lisbon sent reinforcements to Governor Oliveira's garrison...
...President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution (which guarantees freedom of religion and the church's right to administer its own internal affairs), and thus placed the church "outside the legal pale...