Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more, no less- the hearing, the share, the place granted them by the votes of the citizens. Why then should the odious strife and fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately through universal suffrage. With them, and for them, France will see to it that...
...FARE CUTS on Pacific and round-the-world flights will be proposed by Pan Am at meeting of rate-setting International Air Transport Association. Britain's government-owned airways also favor fare cuts, and sentiment is growing to establish economy fares, now confined to North Atlantic flights, on all international runs...
...town of Boston had reached 40,000 in population, and the town fathers felt the need to establish a city form of government. Again Quincy's personal tenets conflicted with those of the majority; he felt the "pure democracy of the town meeting more suited to the character of the people of New England." However, he presided at the final Boston town meeting and would have been elected first mayor save for factional politics. Mayor Phillips retired at the end of a single year, and Quincy assumed the position...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen expertly told short stories about life among Negroes of a small Southern town establish the author as a first-rate writer, on his first try between hard covers...
...their more candid moments, the country's ruling Boers admit to a certain uneasiness over their growing isolation from the rest of the continent. In Pretoria, Oom Paul Kruger's old Boer capital, the Minister of External Affairs Eric Louw talks of the eventual need to establish diplomatic relations with 'the independent black nations. "But it will take time to prepare the people," he says. Louw wears a perpetually mournful look...