Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperate retreat for men who had previously denounced Mendès' revisions. EDC opponents countered with the deadliest weapon in the rules of order, a question prealable-which calls for an immediate vote to decide whether the subject before the Assembly is worth discussing at all. To adopt it would be to kill EDC humiliatingly...
Mendès insisted that he wanted no more shilly-shallying. "Once the vote has been taken," he said, "we shall have to accept the consequences and either put the treaty into effect or else adopt a new solution in agreement with our allies...
...fought precisely because it was thought that we would swallow anything. And precisely the same process is being repeated before our eyes today. There are even more ominous symptoms and similarities. Whenever the Nazis were ready for another expansion, they charged their opponents with provocations . . . The Communists adopt the same tactics and accuse our American allies of 'provocation' off the Chinese coast. Again the tactic is to gauge the prospect of adventure by the amount that we will swallow . . . A new war may arise from the old impression of British gullibility. Untimely affabilities increase that impression...
Judge Meyer pointed out that Government workers, by specific law, must be fired if they resort to the Fifth Amendment. "It would be an anomalous result," he said, "if . . . those not in public service could enjoin or recover damages from" firms which merely adopt the Government's rule to their own business. The Judge concluded that the movie industry and the public would be entitled to draw "unfavorable inferences" from the plaintiffs' refusal to testify. Said he: "It would be unrealistic to say that the . . . employers, who are dependent upon the public for the continuance of their businesses...
Crazy Sports Shirt. Picked from 16,000 applicants from West Germany, Gundolf arrived in August, was made to feel at home right from the start. His hosts were Mr. and Mrs. John Morley, who had volunteered to adopt an exchange student for a year because "there was little enough we could do to help out in this world." Since then, Gundolf has been a member of the family. "Can you imagine" says he, "I have one of their rooms and all their food and they give me presents. These denims I'm wearing, and this, how you say, crazy...