Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...
When the Student Council gathered at Phillips Brooks House for its biweekly meeting last night, it found the door to its office on the second floor barred, bolted, and guarded. It's seems that a secret society was holding an ultra-hush-hush session in the lavishly-furnished room which the Council calls home...
...Manhattan studio, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 39-year-old, Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough, color television can be in the U.S. home...
...elections were originally scheduled for late this month, but MacArthur's purge had disrupted party organizations and all campaign plans. At least 107 of the present Diet's Representatives (full membership: 466) were said to be ultra-nationalist or militarist, and therefore ineligible for reelection...
...drafted into politics in December 1941 as Mr. King's choice to succeed the late Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. At his first press conference, Minister St. Laurent told reporters: "I know nothing at all about politics." In his first election campaign, he proved it by telling his ultra-isolationist constituents in Quebec East that he would vote for conscription. But he was elected with a whopping majority. He scored another tremendous victory in last June's election...