Word: usurpation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators, who sit among the theatre audience, usurp control of the doctor's meeting. Fearing new taxes and loss of the town's chief income, they vote the doctor an "enemy of the people...
...quiet, deliberate tone as he read his prepared address. Said he: "It must be remembered that the Federal Government is the creature of the states and possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states . . . We must either choose to defend our rights against those who would usurp them or else surrender." Without further ado the legislature gave Orval Faubus almost absolute power over Arkansas' schools and schoolchildren. The votes on the key Faubus bill: senate, 33-0; house...
...first novel by 36-year-old. Amsterdam-born Hans Koningsberger does what life has been known to do: it mismatches a man and a woman. Toni and Catherine are not meant for each other, but owing to the chemistry of passion, smoke gets in their eyes. Temperamentally, the pair usurp each other's sex roles. Toni is sensitive, day-dreamy, putty-willed. An internee, he longs to escape to Britain, but rarely makes a real move to get there. Swiss Catherine is the fully emancipated "New Woman" who was born in the inkwells of Ibsen and Shaw...
...socialists wrongly assume the right of property to be of mere human invention . . . and, preaching up the community of goods, declare that ... all may with impunity seize upon the possessions and usurp the rights of the wealthy. More wise and profitably, the Church recognizes the existence of inequality amongst...
...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...