Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEREAS a day of dedication to the principle of government under laws would afford us an opportunity better to understand and appreciate the manifold virtues of such a government and to focus the attention of the world upon them...
...frontier court, and then reflect upon the growth of domestic law to meet the needs of our people. International law can do likewise." No one knows better than Lawyer Rhyne that the rule of law cannot be imposed on peoples of the world until they have learned to understand and respect it. He knows too that understanding and respect begin at home. He originated the the idea of the first Law Day as an opportunity for lawyers and laymen, too long carried headlong in the seething, exciting torrent of codes and laws, to take reflective inventory, to study and ponder...
...reluctant hero, nor the hesitant heroine, nor the crowd of secondary suitors, nor the meddling friend, nor the coarse matchmaker, have been conceived with much imagination. Gogol portrays the Russian bourgeoisie, with only slight exaggeration and stereotyping, in all its pomposity, stupidity, and avarice. After The Marriage one can understand the October Revolution...
...wrong, you understand," he remarked from the door. "This business is not all play. We've got a job to do--teach the people, promulgate the propaganda, foster good will. The world treads a tight-rope wire, and the blood of the body politic is watered with thin-skimmed and anemic apathy. We are the hypodermic needle...
...himself on his knowledge of foreign aid problems, well knew that a low-rate foreign loan or grant usually has security or political implications that play no part in U.S. domestic affairs. Snapped New Jersey Republican Clifford Case: "If it is impossible for the people of the U.S. to understand the reason for loans at lower interest rates to foreign countries . . . then indeed the security...