Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into politics, first as M.P. for Calvinia, then as Minister of the Interior. His first important achievement was to insert a new clause in South Africa's constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...their bluff was called when sponsors of the Administration program agreed to insert a clause in their bill stating that control of rivers and harbors was, and shall be, not intended. "The opposition Congressmen had their hands called when they refused to allow the amendment," Maass said...
...efforts to restore anything like normal vision to elderly eyes clouded by cataracts. In modern times they have been able to cut into the eyeball, remove the cataract-clouded lens, and try to make up for the loss of the lens by spectacles. But they have not dared to insert a substitute in the eyeball. Now a British eye surgeon reports a way to do just that: a carefully ground lens made of plastic is slipped into the eyeball during the operation and stays there...
...easy to transform a good play into a good movie. Perhaps someone will someday invent a "play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
...sending its literature out under the free-mailing privileges of sympathetic Congressmen, C.C.G. often cuts down the cost of distribution. A Congressman will insert a C.C.G. article in the Congressional Record; thousands of copies are reproduced by the Government Printing Office at low rates paid by the Congressman who is then remibursed by the C.C.G. The material is forwarded to C.C.G. headquarters in New York where it is addressed and sent postage free through the mails under the Congressman's franking privileges. To date over eight million pieces of C.C.G. political literature have been mailed in this manner. Two million...