Word: attends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designating Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, onetime (1953-57) U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce and AEC Chairman John A. McCone to represent the U.S. at the funeral services in St. Peter's, Presbyterian Eisenhower accepted an invitation to attend a Requiem Mass for the Pontiff this week at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington...
...that Israel had sent an official from its Foreign Ministry, they threatened to withdraw if the Israelis were seated. Conference officials scurried back and forth between the Arabs in the Hotel Excelsior and the Israelis across the square in the Grand, finally got a compromise whereby the Israelis would attend the conference as observers, not as delegates...
...guests will take their meals with the students, hold discussion meetings, attend special dinners in their honor, and meet with individual students by appointment...
Hard work, indeed, is perhaps the most notable feature of Nigeria's educational system. Fear of losing a government scholarship is, however, only one explanation for this phenomenon. Another is the simple fact that there are not enough schools for everyone; hence, only those most qualified may attend. This involves a merciless elimination of the intellectually unfit. The process begins early. The principal of a secondary school in Onitsha told me that 900 boys applied this year to his school; the number was reduced to 180 after competitive examinations, and of these 60 were finally selected. The principal of Government...
...That isn't the half of it," he returned, with another shudder and the hint of a sob. "Attend, my boy, and you shall hear the whole sad tale of how I have been reduced in the course of half a morning from a young man flushed with the vigor of his bursting prime, to the doddering human wreck you see before you. "It all began at about seven this morning. I was sleeping the sleep of the young and the innocent, as is my custom of a morning, when the phone rang. I got wearily to my feet, staggered...