Word: belongs
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Today, 20 nations belong to the OAS. Through dozens of councils and committees, the OAS plays a major role in coordinating Alianza programs; it trains technicians, promotes public health, welfare and education. But its biggest job is political -acting as a peace-keeping mediator. In any dispute, at least one of the parties must request OAS help before it will intervene. Routine squabbles are handled by the permanent Council of OAS Ambassadors which meets twice a month; in serious cases, the Council may summon a meeting of OAS foreign ministers, or simply sit in for the ministers, acting on orders...
Again by accident, a farmer digging in his vineyard unearthed the tops of several large fluted columns. Archaeologist Haralambos Makaronas, head of the Pella dig, believes the columns belong to the 5th century B.C. temple dedicated to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, of which Roman Historian Livy speaks...
...about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view of this SCLC undertaking...
...some states bound the former slaves to their farms and employers. In the words of Republican Carl Schurz, the Black Codes were "a striking embodiment of the idea that although the former owner has lost his individual right of property in the former slave, 'the blacks at large belong to the whites at large...
...University policeman said Saturday he thought the police could help. "We probably can't catch the thieves in the act," he said, "but if we were asked, we could at least check on the people who don't belong and who persistently hang around the Loeb...