Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected by the Bundestag). He hopes to follow the example of his friend De Gaulle in influencing events from an eminence. Perhaps he will be less influential than he foresees. Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier has already warned that "there must be no twisting of the constitution on any account," and others argue that real power inevitably remains in the Chancellor's control of party patronage...
Brandeis' record this spring is one and one. A ten-inning tie game with Coast Guard was called on account of rain, while the Judges were outscored by B.C., 10 to 6. The team features an airtight infield and several fast outfielders. When Kirby is on the mound, the Judges present one of the best defensive nines in the league...
...movie in its own right, this is a competent, interesting Hollywood effort, marked by some superior acting. It is worth seeing on that account, but one had best give up all thoughts of Faulkner before going...
...always "gonna" write the great work. He had promised F.D.R. that would write the naval history himself, with only necessary assistance, which was provided by former pupils and one Yale man (an already established naval historian). His unbeatable approach left the Navy Department-- and the world--a first-hand account of what happened at sea. His example proved the military value of a scholar...
...enlightening because Williams attempts a systematic historical account of the origins of modern diplomacy; it is disquieting because in his observations he challenges fundamental assumptions of the Western point-of-view. And if the Williams analysis does not strike the reader as totally valid, it at least drives home the point that the American outlook has a significant ideological, non-objective tinge...