Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Course. "The Constitution created a government dedicated to equal justice under law. The Fourteenth Amendment embodied and emphasised that ideal. State support of segregated schools through any arrangement, management, funds, or property cannot be squared with the Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
Will-o'-the-Wisps. Whether by voluntary allegiance or enforced support, the F.L.N. has grown steadily more powerful. After four years of the Algerian war, whole regions of the country (see map) have fallen into rebel hands, are effectively ruled by F.L.N. mayors, tax collectors and administrative officers. The National Liberation army itself has grown from scattered bands of fellaghas to a regular force of 120,000 men armed with Mausers, Lee-Enfields, Bren guns, German-made mortars and U.S. 75-mm. recoilless rifles. Between the Morice line and the Tunisian border the rebels have established a major supply...
Lamine-Debaghine (whose spectacles and partially paralyzed face have won him the nickname "Mr. Moto") and Minister for North African Affairs Abdelhamid Mahri, an Arabic scholar who sometimes talks like a fellow traveler, argues that the F.L.N. is being pushed into ties with the Communists because of "U.S. support of France...
Many F.L.N. weapons are arms that the British left by the thousands in Egypt, and that Nasser, who now has shiny new Soviet guns to replace them, has turned over to the Algerians. Diplomatically, the F.L.N. has had Soviet bloc support in the U.N., and its newly proclaimed state has been formally recognized only by Red China, North Korea, North Viet Nam and Outer Mongolia among non-Moslem states. (Soviet Russia, playing a devious game in hopes of keeping its influence in Paris, has yet to recognize...
Then some of the passel of pacifists, neutralists and fellow travelers wanted to denounce U.S. bases in Britain and scuttle NATO. Gaitskell, a middle-of-the-road friend of NATO and the U.S., took the steam out of their drive by moving an "emergency resolution" vowing not to support any war for Quemoy and pledging "no obsequious silence" before U.S. policy if Labor rules...