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...proposal by the three powers does not accord with the demands of the creation of effective European security, and . . . would make the situation in Europe even more aggravated."-We can't think of a good reason to reject it, but we reject it anyway...
...feel certain that a national vote on this question would not be in accord with the court's ruling...
...Dear Dick," it began. "I hope you will continue to have meetings of the National Security Council and of the Cabinet over which you will preside in accord with the procedure which you have followed at my request in the past during my absence from Washington. As ever, Dwight D. Eisenhower." Some of Nixon's detractors took a long reach and said this was merely the President's way of keeping Nixon in his place. But two days later there was another announcement from Denver: the President had called the Vice President to a bedside conference...
...Second Law of Thermodynamics, generally credited to German Physicist Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (1822-88), teaches in its simplest form that heat of its own accord will always flow from higher to lower temperature...
...holder of the Purple Heart? Some of the witnesses thought Gallagher believed in the Communist doctrines; others thought that Gallagher was one who enjoyed lording it over his fellows, seeming important and influential, and that he was soft and pliable, receptive to the meager comforts the Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know I can't quit ..." The reactionaries were not sympathetic: "I told him if I lived and he lived," said Sergeant Pate, "I would personally...