Word: deferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissenting, the U.S. Justice Department re-entered the case; it had pulled out last May when the FBI probe established that the federal kidnaping law had not been violated. Determined to defer no more to Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi...
Though he never said so flatly, Ike was clearly nettled by the word from France that President de Gaulle was seeking to defer the proposed program for a Western summit early next month and the follow-up of an East-West meeting in December (see FOREIGN NEWS). "Time," said he pointedly, "is slipping by ... Fashions [of diplomacy] have seemed to change a little bit ... I would prefer always . . . to do these things by diplomatic means, and then finally get heads of government agreement." This time the President reversed his position that preliminary low-level talks must precede a summit meeting...
...parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child also . . . Sexual intercourse...
Eisenhower's daughter-in-law Barbara and the four Eisenhower grandchildren. There Eisenhower and Khrushchev reached substantive agreement of a sort. They agreed to defer President Eisenhower's return visit to the U.S.S.R. until the flowers bloom in the spring. Reason, according to Khrushchev: Eisenhower agreed to bring his grandchildren to Russia, would prefer spring's warmer weather...
When Beerbohm Tree was first faced with producing this tale of "the boy who would not grow up" in 1904, he attempted to defer the production, feeling certain that Barrie had gone quite mad to have written such an escapist play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter...