Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition and Franco's constitution, Spain is a Christian state. But across Spain last week sounded a grave warning from spokesmen for the state church itself: "The overwhelming majority" of Spanish workers are indifferent to religion. "Contrary to what was hoped," they have not developed "a greater feeling for Christian life...
...Marine sentries spotted a strange object and, in the best traditions of General Order No. 2 ("To observe everything that takes place within sight or hearing"), made their report to the Officer of the Day: a flying saucer had just landed near Quantico, Va., some 15 miles away. Marine spokesmen staunchly denied that 1) a Marine helicopter had flown to investigate and found nothing, 2) two platoons had been deployed to capture The Thing...
...Vietnamese coast to the Mekong River, General Henri Navarre, the French commander in Indo-China, guessed that the Reds might turn south and attack Savannakhet and Seno. But last week Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap, who directed the Communist thrust to the Mekong, was biding his time. Meanwhile, various spokesmen pointed out that the military value of the enemy operation was almost nil. Secretary Dulles pooh-poohed it in Washington; so did the Ministry of the Associated States in Paris. The fact indeed was that headlines-to the effect that Indo-China had been cut in two-had given...
...their farming ("Don't try to farm with one arm"), demanded "more doctors for rural areas," and worked for a better deal for the Negro ("We must fight for a much fairer deal for the Negro, even while we also oppose the extremist demands of his more violent spokesmen"). Poe kept Progressive Farmer free of any single farm group, still carries the legend in the magazine: "Serving no master, ruled by no faction, circumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy...
...School because he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in .his state. This and other similar cases that followed opened the doors of many graduate and professional schools to Negroes.* But none of the cases reached the level or the principle involved in the present cases. The Negro spokesmen maintain that even if physical facilities are the same, social and psychological factors make a basic difference. Their contention: "separate" can never be "equal...