Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes, in pressing U.S. allies to join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union.) In abruptly canceling the Aswan Dam negotiations he provided Nasser with a public relations excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly...
...ardent young liberal at the forefront of the C.I.O. movement, the International Union of Electrical Workers' president -like many another labor leader-has been wary of congressional interference in union affairs. Last week 45-year-old Jim Carey changed his mind. In announcing that the I.U.E. had adopted an ethical-practices code far tougher than anything yet accepted by its fellows, President Carey 1) publicly called on all unions to recognize Congress' right to investigate labor racketeering and corruption, and 2) bluntly declared that any I.U.E. officer who pleaded the Fifth Amendment would be put on trial...
...Market. But for all Spaak's understandable reluctance to indulge in grandiose talk of supra-nationalism, it is clear that the interlocking of economies that would come with the Common Market would make another Franco-German war highly unlikely, and in time would probably lead the Six to adopt a common budget and, hence, a considerable degree of political unity...
...late, famed, alcoholic painter of Montmartre scenes sounds like a roll call of 19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...
...Senate presently proceeding?" Then came the clay's floor-shaking surprise. Said Dick Nixon: "It is the opinion of the chair that there can be no question but that the majority . . . under the Constitution has the power to determine the rules . . . The right of a current majority ... to adopt its own rules, stemming as it does from the Constitution itself, cannot be restricted or limited by rules adopted by the Senate in a previous Congress. Any provision . . . which has the express or practical effect of denying the majority . . . the right to adopt the rules under which it desires...