Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nations newly emerged from colonial status are irritated by U.S. unwillingness to support their every aspiration, however unrealistic. Many somehow expected that independence would bring with it the material blessings they had always lacked, and blamed the U.S. when it proved unable to provide them...
...Keep it up-we're winning," cried the Laborite weekly Tribune. "Now Germans join great campaign!" Last week 40 prominent West German politicians, trade unionists, professors, authors and theologians issued a proclamation demanding that the government keep out of any atomic armament race and "support all efforts for an atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously...
Bourguiba even set a time limit within which Britain and the U.S. must agree to support Tunisia against France, "to prevent eyes from turning toward the Communist bloc or other countries." Announcing that he had canceled Tunisia's March 20 Independence Day ceremonies "because we are no longer convinced we are truly free," Bourguiba declared: "March 20 is the fatal day. By then we can see what direction we must take. If we cannot find the support of the West, I will be obliged to say that I have made a mistake...
Over Speer's protests, and with the informal support of fellow board members, Papa Pecjak took Sharon out of school the day before the meet, drove her and other nonmathematicians to the elimination races at Winter Park, Colo. All four made the Nationals; Sharon won both the downhill and slalom races in her division...
...fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high at its peak, support each other; the principle is the same as that which causes a piece of firm paper to stand when it is creased and placed on edge...