Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
This affray above the Yellow Sea differed from its predecessors in that it was the biggest and best organized Communist air ambush since Korea; also in that the Communists did not even bother to protest. Six hundred miles southward, in the storm center around the Tachen Islands, the Seventh Fleet took wary note. "I want tight formations, no straggling," one Navy flight leader told his pilots. "Test your guns as soon as you get into a clear area. Make certain they are ready. Remember this-we are not out looking for a fight. But if trouble is brought...
...Washington correspondent for the Atlanta World and National Negro Press Association, Louis Lautier stirred up a storm when he applied for admission to the National Press Club last month. The 911-member club had never admitted a Negro before, and the members split into two sharply divided groups over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally...
Died. Robert Semple, 82, veteran member of New Zealand's Labor Party, longtime (1935-49) Minister of Public Works in the Labor government, famed for his vigorous, salty soapbox oratory; in New Plymouth, New Zealand. A lover of invective, Semple stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1938 by referring to Hitler and Mussolini as "mad dogs," once defended himself against a charge that he was making unfair profits out of Australian building interests by commenting: "I haven't enough assets in Australia to build a toilet for a cockroach...
Hemp Is Best. When the book first appeared in England in 1928, it started a storm of controversy, and a Royal Commission later recommended that the death penalty be abolished. After barely failing to vote a temporary end to capital punishent in 1948, Parliament may now debate the matter again, and Author Duff has brought his satire up to date with the latest technical information, plus international statistics. Though about half the nations of the U.N. have abandoned capital punishment, Britain, the Commonwealth and the "more enlightened states" of the U.S. "continue to hang...