Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva was a precondition to a summit meeting. As a way of avoiding both alternatives, Herter urged the President to invite Khrushchev to the U.S. Ike had often discussed the pros and cons...
...hyphen, apostrophe, capitals, italics, and paragraph indentation. And, although they are somewhat ancillary to the main topic, he adds two chapters--one on proofreading (I found only two slips in proofreading in the whole book); and the other on common grammatical and stylistic errors in such matters as participial agreement, the barbarous use of "following" for "after," the "due to"-"owing to" distinction, the coupling of relative clauses, and the placement of "only...
...They reached complete agreement that each item should be dealt with on a separate piece of paper. They did not agree on anything else...
After long debate, federal officials decided that Carbondale's unusual plight made it deserving of federal help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in the threatened area (130 acres) will be-bought at fair prices. Then massive dragline excavators will attack the fire by digging huge trenches around the burning coal...
...Pravda grumbled last week that 'Finland should watch out for entangling political alliances. Wise in the ways of Soviet nuance and tone, the Finns decided that the Russians were only growling, not really mad. Accordingly > the Finns promised the Soviets to wait until the final wording of the agreement before joining, but meantime agreed to join the Outer Seven in drawing up the final draft...