Word: branched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of the Senate" resolution, Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared that national commitments to foreign governments should result only from "affirmative action taken by the executive and legislative branches of the United States Government." Too often, said the Arkansas Democrat, the executive branch has sent troops to countries without prior commitments or proper consultation with the Senate. "This resolution," he explained, "seeks to recover in some degree the constitutional role of the Senate in the making of foreign policy-a role which the Senate itself has permitted to be obscured and diminished over the years...
...Tuesday morning, Detroit was shrouded in acrid smoke. The Edsel Ford and John C. Lodge freeways were nearly deserted. Tens of thousands of office and factory workers stayed home. Downtown streets that are normally jammed were almost empty. Looters smashed the windows of a Saks Fifth Avenue branch near the General Motors office building, made off with furs and dresses. With many grocery stores wrecked and plundered throughout the city, food became scarce. Some profiteering merchants were charging as much as $ 1 for bread...
Died. Desmond FitzGerald, 57, CIA Deputy Director for Plans (meaning the agency's operational branch, with its overseas agents and paramilitary organizations), an urbane onetime Wall Street corporation lawyer who became the CIA's Latin American chief in the shakeup following the Bay of Pigs debacle, took over the plans department last year; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in The Plains...
...Munsons of the world when he's told to climb no higher than 12 ft. off the ground? So Mr. Munson fell out of a tree house as a child, and cut his arm. May he do so again-but this time from a 5-in.-diameter hardwood branch! And may he land-rump first -on a 16-penny nail...
...customs and currencies of the countries they planned to visit. But more and more U.S. citizens today face the prospect of living abroad for extended periods during their lifetime, as students, diplomats, businessmen or Peace Corps volunteers. Training them to cope with alien habits has become a burgeoning new branch of American education...