Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...
When he was appointed head of FAO in 1945 he called the new organization "the answer to the atomic bomb." In recent years he has sought a new answer in internationalism, became president of the Movement for World Federal Government and a sponsor of World Citizen Garry Davis (TIME...
...became a bustling lumber town, and Mayor Thibeaudeau came to realize that he had less of a novelty and more of a traffic menace on his hands. It became clear that the moose was quite without fear and that sooner or later it would plough into some local citizen or other minor obstacle which chanced to be in its way. It was also quite clear that full grown moose would suffer little or no damage from such a collision, but that the other party more than likely would be jolted right into his coffin...
Both the wording and the scope of this section appear so broad that a zealous prosecutor might, using the Act, jail a citizen who was naive, but decidedly loyal...
...idea of what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against German militarism. He traveled in India, wrote a volume on Hindu mysticism in his middle years, published a Dostoevskian psychological , novel in 1930 and after 15 years of silence brought out his masterpiece...