Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once, when someone at a rally cried "Send the Jews to Africa!", the ex-Premier shot back acidly: "I thought the Nazis were gone from France." The crowd applauded and heard him out. At the end of his speech, Mendès, like all aspiring politicians, had to undergo a process known as the contradictoire, in which a candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from...
Another inequity of the present system is the regulation that all employees, regardless of the sensitivity of their jobs, must be investigated. Certainly there are non-sensitive positions whose occupants need not undergo a full investigation; the danger of subversion by curators of the National Zoo is small indeed...
...Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary zeal. It was not always thus; Jesus described the Pharisees as crossing "sea and land to make one proselyte," and one Maccabean king, John Hyrcanus I (135-104 B.C.), even compelled the conquered Idumeans to become Jews and undergo circumcision. But in the main, Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according to the bulk of Jewish tradition, that covenant will include all mankind. In the meantime converts are traditionally discouraged, and conversion merely for the sake...
...other Mt. Sinai rooms and in a dozen Quaker households near Manhattan, 24 other young Japanese women were waiting their turn to undergo plastic surgery, some for the second or third time. They all had one thing in common: ten years ago they were on the streets of Hiroshima within a mile of ground zero on the day the first atom bomb was dropped...
...science and hopes some day to be a doctor. But all this apparently meant little to the South African government. The police first refused to give Stephen the usual "certificate of character" that most travelers carry. Then, in addition to the usual questioning that all Negro passport applicants must undergo, detectives subjected Stephen to an additional grilling on every topic, from why he wanted to go to the U.S. to what he thought was wrong with education at home. In spite of such obstacles, Father Huddleston and Stephen went ahead with their passport application. They posted the necessary ?100 bond...