Word: accession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jordan and Israel pledged protection and access for all worshipers to Jerusalem's religious shrines. There was even a chance that Jordan and Israel, united in opposing internationalization of the Holy City, might reach an overall peace settlement. "We will shed our blood for Jerusalem," warned a Jordan spokesman. "Let the U.N. take heed." Pointedly, Abdullah was spending each Friday, the Moslem Sabbath, in the Old City. "The U.N.," he said during last week's visit, "does not seem to know the reality of the situation, We oppose the [internationalization] resolution because it is impracticable...
Book thievery at Houghton has been non-existent in spite of the apparent temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says...
...internationalization argued. But that peace will last only until one of the armies decides it is the stronger. And there are always the bomb-planters who cannot wait for official shooting to start. Bi-lateral treaties, even if made with all sincerity by leaders, can never assure unmolested access to Jerusalem's Shrines. If nations are going to allow the UN to use its powers, they must let it decide what is "likely" to destroy peace and act accordingly...
...rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier books (Battle of the Atlantic, North African Waters, Rising...
...things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin: "If the Soviet Union is ready to perform these essentials...