Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South African Communists watched, waited and acted. They sent shrewd, handsome Sam Kahn out on the hustings in the Western constituency of the Cape Province. Kahn campaigned sharply against Malan's apartheid (racial segregation) policy, condemned "the Nazi doctrine of white supremacy...
...mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it was part of a religious way of life which he called Satyagraha. In a short book published this week-Satyagraha (Henry Regnery, $2)-Gandhi Disciple Ranganath R. Diwakar explains this philosophy to Western readers...
...allocated $26 million to Western European nations to buy aluminum. They had been using the dollars to buy Canadian ingots at 16? a lb. This gave the Europeans a surplus of aluminum. They shipped the metal to the U.S.-where there is a shortage-in the form of scrap. U.S. fabricators were paying as high as 25? a lb. for their European scrap...
...Plomb did not keep its word, and, after several suits, Plumb finally pinned Plomb down in March 1947. A U.S. district court gave the western company a year within which to stop using and advertising its name as a trademark...
...nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...