Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...African travels from the countryside to the city, or just across the street for cigarettes, South Africa's ubiquitous, hard-fisted police check his pass. If he stands outside his front door without his pass, the police will not let him walk five feet to get it. He is hauled off to jail, without notice to his employer or family, and fined or imprisoned. Murders go unsolved while the courts are jammed with pass offenders...
...years the Africans hated and endured the system. Then a new and more militant organization called the Pan-African Congress decided to exploit the passbook grievance. It urged Africans all over the Union to descend last week upon local police stations-without their passbooks, without arms, without violence-and demand to be arrested. In a few spots, the turnout was impressive. At Orlando township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 20,000 Africans milled around the police station, led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 36, a Methodist-reared university instructor, who heads the Pan-African Congress. Fifteen miles to the south...
...billion. Aided by a bold immigration scheme that has brought 1,500,000 Europeans into the country since 1947, Australia is no longer a backwater, but confident of its dynamism and independence. "Nowadays," says a senior Australian diplomat, "we can talk to anybody in the world without any sense of innate inferiority...
...Singapore and invaded New Guinea,- and even bombed Darwin in Australia's own Northern Territory, Australians abruptly lost their sense of secure remoteness. Britain, fighting for its life, was in no position to help -and was reluctant to lose the battle-hardened Australian troops in the Middle East. "Without any inhibitions of any kind," wrote Prime Minister Curtin in January 1941, "I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom...
...delegates to a convention of the National States Rights Party. Meeting in secret in a lodge near Miamisburg, Ohio, it took them only a day, instead of a slated two, to finish their business. It was clear from the start that their candidate for U.S. President, whom they nominated without shilly-shallying, would be Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval E. Faubus. Also as expected, the party platform was anchored on "complete separation of all non-white and dissatisfied racial minorities from our white-folk community...