Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guilty to "receiving and obtaining" U.S. defense secrets (TIME, April 22). The plea got them out of a tougher charge of conspiring to transmit defense secrets to Soviet agents, and in return it seemed certain that the Sobles had agreed to tell their story. Last week, as a direct outgrowth of secret Soble testimony, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two more Americans as members of the ever-widening Soble ring. The two: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence Officer George Zlatovski, 47, and his wife Jane, 45, a wartime employee of the secret Office of Strategic Services...
...nations in the European community: France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries, have been asked to ratify, by the close of this year, two treaties which promise to remodel them into a compact industrial unit. An outgrowth of existing West European agreements, the Common Market Treaty plans to eliminate all tariff walls and erect a common rate among its signing nations. To further this common economic endeavor, a second treaty, "Euratom," will set about overhauling Europe's industrial power, replacing by 1967 present coal and oil energy with 15 million kilowatts of unclear power. While the Common Market Treaty...
...change is an "outgrowth of requests" made by the Brown student council, and comes as a result of a new administration feeling that "juniors and seniors are handling themselves well in their studies," K. Roald Bergethon, Dean of the College, said...
...outgrowth of a heretical sect founded in France by rich Merchant Peter Waldo in 1176, which moved to the Piedmont Alps and became Protestant early in the Reformation...
This protection of the individual was an outgrowth of the inquisitions of ecclesiastical courts in England in the sixteenth century. It was a protest against tyranny, and Virginia made the Fifth part of the price of ratifying the Constitution because history has demonstrated that the need for the protection is abiding. And history has also demonstrated that, however this section of the amendment may be misused, its necessity to a free society remains paramount...