Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said J. P. Coleman: "Nothing but the good sense of the Mississippi people can save...
...been UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) that has met the stranger on the road to Jericho and given him succor-or, in modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis, for their part, are willing to take...
...write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed support. But Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker gave no sign that Ottawa is willing...
...Harry's watchman he could have the night off? Who washed the bloody handprints from around the window in Sir Harry's bedroom? Why was the pistol removed from Sir Harry's bedside table? How can a certain Bahamas Negro with no visible means of support buy himself a new car each year...
...well documented and thoroughly logical words Cater makes a very impressive case against believing everything you read in the newspapers. Some of it is put there because a reporter needs a story. Some of it gets in because a Washington policy-maker is having a quarrel and needs public support (but the other side of the argument may not make the story.) A great deal of it gets in because of the constant competition for public attention in Washington...