Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd summed up the mood of the conference Friday when he told confidants: "It would be wrong to claim progress on Berlin. But I have a feeling in my bones that we will get an agreement of sorts in the end--maybe a small one but enough to take us to the summit...
...There can be no concrete agreement of any kind in Geneva. Perhaps there may be some understanding of the broad outlines of an agenda for discussion of the problems of Berlin and Germany at the summit conference," he said...
Despite, or perhaps on account of the long history of honorary degrees at Harvard, there is no real agreement on the first recipient of a special award. Intellectual historians point to Nathaniel Appleton, a Cambridge minister who received the S.T.D. in 1771, as the first undisputed honorary doctor. They eliminate seventeenth-century tutors William Brattle and John Leverett, for they were required to prepare a "Theological" dissertation; President Mather received his award to enhance his position atop the Harvard hierarchy...
...certainly getting nowhere. Neither did the first of their private talks, 15,000 feet over the Atlantic. But already everyone was looking for an agreeable way to break off the Geneva talks in a week or two, and the chief interest now centered on a search for an interim agreement committing all Big Four powers to maintain something like the status quo in Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling for token concessions from the West. Sample...
...private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn into tidy squares, they wait on the porcelain tank of the toilet...