Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conquer peacefully and fully." Then he set out to reverse the 20th Party Congress' approval of Tito's "separate roads to socialism." All Communist parties must follow "one general road pointed out by Marxism-Leninism," he said, but in building socialism they may, as the Chinese did, adopt their "own peculiar forms," and proceed at different tempos...
...such unanimity exists concerning the policy we shoud adopt on German reunification as does on the problem of West Berlin. The present divided Germany, though, holds dangers for both sides. East Germany might embarrasingly erupt into rebellion against its masters, and the West might eventually face an independent West German attempt to negotiate with Moscow over East Germany. Thus preserving the status quo offers no ultimate solution...
...wife, Walter promptly made over some $60 million in stock and art treasures. Perhaps because of his firm ideas about the inheritance of wealth, he did not adopt his wife's adopted son Paulo, though he gave the boy warmth and affection, in sharp contrast to Dominique's coldness and indifference...
...session's outset, they move that the Senate adopt rules for the 1959 session, as it would plainly have to do if it were not a continuing body. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas last week presented a brief to the Senate's presiding officer, Vice President Richard Nixon, making the liberal case that the Senate is not a continuing body. Basis of their argument: The Constitution provides that "each House may determine...
...right to legislate by simple decree once he is formally inducted as President this week (see below), De Gaulle spent the last days of his premiership grinding out laws so distasteful to France's vested interests that no government of the Fourth Republic had ever dared to adopt them...