Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seeger sang them today, accompanying himself on his famed five-string banjo. He refused to interpret their political meaning, saying, "It is wrong to pin specific meanings to works of art." He describes his function as a catalyst, "bringing the songs to the people and letting them work their magic...
...said yes to De Gaulle, and he carried every single department in France. Jacques Soustelle, his most important and gifted antagonist, campaigned fiercely in Lyon, where he was elected Deputy in 1958, and lost. "Let us recognize the brutal fact," said Soustelle when the results were in. "Algeria must interpret the vote as a gesture of abandonment...
...securities, boosted Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's customers to 450,000 and its gross annual income to more than $136 million. To Wall Streeters painfully astounded by Truman's 1948 presidential victory, Republican Smith gave cool counsel: "It is not good economics to interpret personal surprise as economic catastrophe...
...angle camera balked. There is some chance that it will take better pictures later, or that it can be "repaired" by deft electronic twiddling from stations on earth. Even if it never does function properly, the narrow-angle camera alone will yield valuable weather information. But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots...
...federal laws unconstitutional. From that time, though the South has recognized both the idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high court to interpret the law it is supposed to uphold. According to Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, the doctrine of nullification embraced by the South since the origin of the states' rights argument "is no different legally from the right of interposition which Louisiana now claims...