Word: according
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noting that Guatemala's long-term contracts with the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. and International Railways of Central America exempted them from new taxes, Castillo Armas expressed a tactful hope that "foreign companies will make a contribution of their own accord...
...part of PBH, he ignores the fact that such organizations withdrew from the house voluntarily between thirty and forty years ago. They did not take "piety" with them when they left. The remaining social service committee became, in effect, the Association, expanded in many directions, and in perfect accord with PBH endowments, encouraged religious projects from time to time...
Thus it seems that UMass administrators are not in complete accord on at least one issue concerning campus life. No so, however, with the University's students. On any subject, whether it be football or fraternities, they exhibit an amazing spirit of uniformity and acquiescence, apparently accepting the campus status quo as the only possible order of things...
Recognized Phantoms. When the West broke off in disgust for "a day of grace," the Communists baited the trap a little: Molotov agreed that three separate armistice commissions could be formed. This meant that France would have to accord tacit recognition to the phantom Communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia as members of the armistice commissions, but the hungry French called it progress. The U.S. diagnosis:"This session got nowhere...
...balloting by the narrowest margin-two votes-of his 10½-month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...