Word: accords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life Is not important." "People of Cuba!" cried Castro, his shirt gaping over his potbelly, his eyes rolling. "Life is not important. All that is important is the destiny of the nation. All those in accord with re-establishment of the revolutionary tribunals, raise their hands." A quarter of a million hands shot up, machetes clinked in the air, and again came the chant...
Selwyn Lloyd's disclosure that agreement on cessation of atmospheric and underwater atomic tests is near should be pleasant news even to the most adamant militaristic chauvinists; its significance as an international accord far outweighs even the great value of stopping tests...
...fact that the alumni of the two schools had formed, not two, but one organization to aid and supervise the teams. This was the Achilles Club, composed of holders of Blues, half-Blues, and Relay Colours in track. Although the Achilles carried on its affairs in an aura of accord, there was no slackening of rivalry between the two universities on the athletic field. The former athletes simply felt that preservation of Oxford and Cambridge track was more important than preserving either Oxford or Cambridge alone. It is an attitude that Harvard and Yale alumni may be forced to contemplate...
...been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, gathered at a hall...
...article on Acting Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller was a very interesting introduction. However, he did not pull out from the National Association of Manufacturers in disagreement over labor policies. He did resign from another organization [the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers] as he was not in accord with certain of its new policies...