Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party. Charlie Milton's wife left home. She was gone for months. But she finally came back, and one night last week she and Imogene went out together. Charlie met them at Amend's Tavern and they all went back to Imogene's, where they had a heated argument. Focus of the argument: Charlie. Wrathfully Betty Milton jabbed an ice pick through Imogene's screen door. Imogene, just as wrathful, rushed out and hurled a beer glass through one of the Miltons' windows...
...Future & Ben Franklin. The charter provides for future change. At the end of ten years simple majorities of the Assembly and of the Security Council may call another conference to review and amend. But all of the Big Powers must accept the amendments. If the Big Powers are still as big and still in the same state of mind, amendment will be as difficult...
...Provided for a future constitutional convention to review and amend the charter within ten years...
Period!'; or when any one is ready to fight will say 'You must not fight. Period!' " That was enough to defeat the amend ment...
...Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...