Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuban journalists, who in the past have stoutly upheld the beauty of Cuban women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...
Judge Tamm acknowledged the fact that his ruling, if upheld by higher courts, would cause major problems for the armed forces. It surely would. There are more than 265,000 dependents overseas with American servicemen, along with nearly 142,000 civilian employees of the armed forces. All these would seem to be placed in a sort of legal sanctuary by Judge Tamm's projection of the Toth decision. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons estimates that the Tamm ruling could free at least 50 persons who, like Mrs. Covert, were civilians overseas with the armed forces and therefore beyond...
...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
...week tersely ordered public parks, playgrounds and golf courses desegregated. It required fewer than 70 words for the Supreme Court to make two separate rulings, one affirming an appeals court decision against segregation in Maryland parks and playgrounds (including swimming pools), the other reversing lower-court decisions that had upheld segregation on Atlanta golf courses...
Judge Aldrich upheld government objections to any testimony about the general conditions at the Jan. 1954 public hearing and struck it from the record. The defense had asked Kamin and another witness about the crowd in the hearing room, and the presence of bright television lights. Aldrich held the testimony failed to prove that the conditions affected Kamin's "function as a normal witness...