Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just how bad became apparent when Nikita coldly refused to attend the first scheduled summit meeting, which had been planned as an intimate and secret confab amongst the Big Four alone. Instead, he announced, he would show up only for the large (24 people), on-record meeting whose proceedings he would be free to blare out to the world...
...years ago, her will set aside $100,000 for 100 years, the fund's income earmarked as reward money for Wellesley children under 16, who "shall have an opportunity to exhibit their memory retention of scriptural verses either from the Old or New Testament." The rules: candidates must attend some religious school, must memorize 20 verses to qualify, after which each verse memorized earns $1-up to $100. Among this week's winners are 154 Roman Catholics, 109 Protestants...
...angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide: "The general does not like to attend empty social affairs.") And for a touchy moment or two, pickets carried placards crying "Libérez l'Algérie," but minus his eyeglasses the nearsighted general never noticed...
STATES' RIGHTS: "I believe that it is both wise and just for Negro children to attend the same schools as whites, [but] I am firmly convinced-not only that integrated schools are not required-but that the Constitution does not permit any interference whatsoever by the federal government in the field of education." Says he, taking aim at the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation decision: "The Constitution is what its authors intended it to be and said it was-not what the Supreme Court says...
...eloquent plea: "Be bold!" Mining Engineer Ernest Newton Patty knew whereof he spoke. Apart from a first-rate mining school, which Patty himself had built up, the ill-equipped campus near Fairbanks was little more than a "moose college" for young Alaskans who lacked the brains or money to attend colleges Outside. Skeptics suggested that it might well be converted into a penal or mental institution...