Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the law stepped in. A German civil court brought ten prominent visionists to trial, charged them with extracting contributions under false pretenses. A court order authorized police to destroy the hillside shrines for violations of the building code...
...aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...
...legal half nelson on German industry. The law takes West Germany farther from free-enterprising capitalism and closer to socialism-yet it was sponsored by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his conservative coalition, which hoped thereby to prevent passage of a more drastic law. Mitbestimmungsrecht (literally, the right of code termination) is the word for Germany's new halfway house to socialism. Extending to all German industry the rules that have bound the Ruhr's steel mills and coal mines since 1947, it requires employers to give their workers a substantial share in all decisions affecting their business...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...
...friend of Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position to learn diplomatic codes and read top secret messages; a Communist consul in the Dominican Republic was transferred to Greece and made chargé d'affaires; another known Communist was jumped from consul third class in El Salvador...