Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hebert, a Dixiecrat, a foe of the President and a crony of Louisiana's dictatorial Political Boss Leander Perez, had asked the President to proclaim a day of prayer for "guidance and wisdom." The President thanked him politely for the suggestion, but rejected it on the grounds that his Thanksgiving proclamation had already accomplished Hebert's aim. Then, in a more acrid tone, Harry Truman added...
First, Radcliffe has the "right" to deal with its students as it sees fit, short of beating them, libeling them, stealing from them, and so on. President Jordan could proclaim that any girl who didn't chant "I shall protect Radcliffe's good, name" for a half-hour every day would be expelled, and he would have a perfect "right" to do so. No contract, no charter, no law forbids such action. Similarly it can threaten Miss Labenow with expulsion for just about any reason it chooses. Or it can insist that its student reporters are reporters only...
Attack. The U.S., he said, must take the offensive against Russia. "It is a role which, in my opinion, we cannot escape . . ." he declared. "We should first get ready to ward off any possible attack and ... we should boldly proclaim our undeniable objective to be a world at peace. To have peace we should be willing to pay, and declare our intention to pay, any price-even the price of instituting a war to compel cooperation for peace...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...division between Roman Catholics and other Christians was widened last week-by a split hair's breadth. A secret consistory was called to meet in Rome Oct. 30 to hear the Pope proclaim as official Roman Catholic dogma that the Virgin Mary was taken bodily into heaven at her death. The decision drew a prompt and strongly worded attack from the Church of England...