Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greece, though a considerable maritime power, was the only nation besides Egypt to refuse to attend the conference. How could a Greek Foreign Minister go to London when Cyprus is in an uproar...
...Egypt, excluding Israel) to negotiate what he carefully termed "an adequate and dependable international administration of the canal on terms which would respect, and generously respect, all the legitimate rights of Egypt." But what if Nasser chose not to heed the moral forces of the conference, even to attend it? Said Dulles: "We have given no commitments at any time as to what the U.S. would do in that unhappy contingency ... I believe that by this conference we will invoke moral forces which are bound to prevail...
...Dulles' insistence, those invited included not only Egypt but Russia (the British and French swallowed hard at first, having spent half a century trying to keep Russia out of the area). The conference would be held even if Premier-President Nasser's Egypt should refuse to attend...
...fishermen of the China coast are a rugged and self-reliant lot. Inured to the vagaries of wind, weather and their fellow man, they have been able to endure better than those ashore the demands of their new Communist masters. Proud and individualistic, they were often forced to attend mass meetings in the name of the new order, and some even saw their daughters commandeered by the Red masters for marriage to the "progressive" younger members of their group. All these things the fishermen of Kwangtung suffered in silence. But last summer, when the Communists began to impose the cooperative...
...door on her body with "weights placed upon it to quantity of seven or eight hundred weights." Gallantry seems to be almost a matter of course for martyrs. Blessed Richard Herst, an English farmer, was hanged for murder in 1628 when an officer arresting him (for refusing to attend Church of England services) fell down, broke his leg and died of gangrene. "He spent some time in prayer at the foot of the scaffold and then, seeing that the hangman was fumbling over fixing the rope, called up to him, 'Tom, I think I must come up and help...