Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, through their legislature, decide that Lady Chatterley's Lover goes so far beyond the acceptable standards of candor that it will be deemed offensive and non-sellable, for the state next door is still free to make its own choice. At least we do not have one uniform standard. But the dangers to free thought and expression are truly great if the Federal Government imposes a blanket ban over the nation on such a book...
...sign that he heard. The center-field Scoreboard reminded him that he was a front runner in a National League pennant race so close that the loss of a single game might mean the difference between first place and fourth, but beyond pawing abstractedly at his red-sleeved uniform shirt, he appeared unmoved. All week long, alone in the shouting crowd with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie") Tebbetts, 44, was busy outguessing the opposition, calling the shots for his own club and cocking his narrowed, china-blue eyes at the umpires. For a man with...
...affidavit from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, quickly appealed to the Supreme Court what they called McGarraghy's "clearly wrong" injunction, bypassing the Appellate Court on grounds that the Girard case's "imperative public importance" demanded a speedy settlement. Their two-fold argument: 1) the Uniform Code of Military Justice permits the Pentagon to surrender jurisdiction to civil authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch has power to waive jurisdiction over overseas G.I.s. At week's end the U.S. Supreme Court decided...
...stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside a gas station in Milan...
...Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...