Word: appointing
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...exceptional time." In the past, the President had been largely a ceremonial figure who, in De Gaulle's scornful words, "reigned but did not rule." With his accession, the head of state was empowered for the first time to "determine and direct the policy of the nation," to appoint his own Cabinet and, if necessary, dissolve the Assembly...
...Prime Minister during the Nazi occupation; in Copenhagen. An arrogant aristocrat, he greeted the Germans with the statement that Hitler had "stricken the world with astonishment and admiration," formed a Danish Free Corps to fight the Russians, and remained in power until 1943, when the Nazis were forced to appoint a military governor; his explanation was that he collaborated to spare his country from Nazi terror, and though he did not go to prison, his countrymen never forgave...
President Pusey will appoint a committee to work on "the bread-and-butter problems of planning space and conferring with the architects," Trottenberg said. Trottenberg will be appointed to the committee...
Earlier, Macmillan had denounced "speculation and innuendo" arising from a series of 25 fairly innocuous letters from Galbraith that had been discovered in Vassall's apartment (TIME, Nov. 16). Now he declared that, "however preposterous, however wicked and however vile" the charges, it was his "duty" to appoint a judicial tribunal to investigate the story -though hitherto he had brushed aside persistent Opposition demands for such a tribunal. This, Macmillan concluded, was "the only machinery open to us for the defense of innocent men if they be innocent, but for their condemnation if they be guilty...
Whereas the National Student Association has new developed into a political forum and whereas the HCUA is constitutionally limited to apolitical affairs, the Leverett House Committee moves that the HCUA no longer appoint representatives to the NSA conference...