Word: un
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to stage a noisy lie-down protest rather than surrender their passports. Instead, the first five to step through immigration had their passports stamped "Not Valid-Tentatively Withdrawn." The rest got letters declaring their passports tentatively withdrawn-and ten of them got subpoenas to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...developers of the hydrogen bomb and strong advocate of intensive atmospheric test ing, told the Senate that "the signing was a mistake. If you ratify the treaty, you will have committed an enormously greater mistake." Teller's chief objection was that the U.S. would be un able to perfect an anti-ballistic missile. Though he admits that a workable system would probably cost an astronomic $50 billion, he declared: "Missile defense may make the difference between our national survival and the end of the U.S. as a nation...
Wallace called upon the state school board to ignore the United States Supreme Court decision that declared un constitutional the reading of prayers and the Bible as a part of prescribed classroom exercise. The board did so, ordered that school devotionals continue, and for good measure condemned the court for "trying to take God out of the public affairs of this nation." For his part, Wallace vowed that if the Supreme Court should try to stop Bible reading in any Alabama school, "I'm going to that school and read it myself...
...goes, until Quiquendonians, unaccountably infected with this un quenchable need for activity, decide to declare war on a neighboring village for an offense committed 500 years earlier. The gasworks blows up just in time, and Quiquendone relapses harmlessly into its familiar stupor...
...bald head shaped like a soccer ball, and sunken blue eyes always hidden behind dark glasses. He dressed flashily, wore elevator shoes of crocodile leather. It amused him to watch naked lady wrestlers, and he had a fetish about hygiene, insisting that all his silverware be sterilized and un touched by human hands. More than most men, Rachman loved money and women...