Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council's withdrawal from the National Student Association evoked a storm of local protest yesterday, but other Ivy League student government officials expressed agreement with the Council's action...
...offshore islands. Given the military standoff on Quemoy, the U.S. now seemed willing to offer as its bargaining counter neutralization of the Nationalist-held islands along the China coast. Though it would not consider turning the islands over to Communist rule, the U.S. was prepared to contemplate an agreement under wliich Mao would commit himself to leave them alone and Chiang would cease to use them as bases...
...symbol of the principle that, in an orderly world, an aggressor cannot be allowed to assert territorial claims by force. That principle the U.S. was properly committed to defend-with a vigor that many of its allies could be grateful for but were too pusillanimous to join. An agreement on the islands' neutralization would be bitter tea for Chiang Kaishek, but it might also be the only way to remove what Dwight Eisenhower called "the thorn in the side of peace...
...Ministers of the two countries since 1955. Nehru sprang gallantly forward to retrieve Begum Noon's golden slipper when it fell as she stepped out of the plane. He escorted them to the high-domed Presidential House, and the talks began. The two leaders quickly worked out an agreement to trade several small enclaves along the disputed East Pakistan border "with a view to relieving tension...
With a staff of more than 20 scholars, Adler pored-over the works of hundreds of Western thinkers, says that he has made his selection without prejudgment, lets each writer speak as a contemporary in a conversation that began with Protagoras. His avowed purpose, neither agreement nor evaluation, was to bring great minds together. The only initial agreement that he could find among them was that "they all attribute [freedom] to man and agree that it has reality and meaning in human life...