Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction of Communist Steve Nelson on the ground that federal security laws (notably the very same Smith Act) had pre-empted state antisedition statutes. Then a year ago the court agreed to review the case of the California Communists (finally decided last week) after earlier Supreme Courts had refused similar hearings...
...Certain people in our country were delighted when the Hungarian events took place. They hoped that something similar would happen in China, that thousands upon thousands of people would demonstrate in the streets. Other people in our country took a wavering attitude toward the Hungarian events...
Room for the Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues...
...keeping advertisers in their place between such long stretches of lush instrumentals, WPAT's President Dickens J. Wright, 44, has wooed so many listeners that he has drawn both advertisers and imitators. Newark's WAAT will start similar programming this week; New York's WOR shows the influence in a daily show, and last week Wright considered suing a California station for taking over WPAT's evening program title, Gaslight Revue, without permission. But he also encourages imitation. Says Wright: "We are in contact with 30 stations in the U.S. and Canada who are interested...
...Brooklyn Dodgers picked the same afternoon to put on a similar performance with the Milwaukee Braves. Already touched for two home runs, Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale faced Batter Johnny Logan and threw as if discretion demanded a duster. But Shortstop Johnny failed to duck. Drysdale's high hard one hit him in the back. Once more, one word led to another and Shortstop Logan steamed toward the pitcher's mound. Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges started for Logan, Milwaukee Coach Johnny Riddle started for Hodges, and the fight was on. By American League standards the affair...