Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense that he privately approved of these actions and passed the buck to the Chamber of Commerce-was Virginia's weak-kneed Governor Thomas B. Stanley, who had co-signed the engraved invitations with a flourish. But many another white Southerner was highly offended at the breach of good manners. In an open letter to Governor Stanley, Virginia-born Lambert Davis, director of the University of North Carolina Press, wrote: "[You] have taken the ridiculous position of asserting, in effect, that being distinguished is an accomplishment possible only for people of Caucasian ancestry. You have succeeded in making...
...bush and hatched plots against Egyptians have at last found themselves forced to recognize Egypt's rights in supervising its own canal." Though the U.S. continued to haggle for some kind of multilateral agreement, every ship that paid its tolls and sailed through the canal widened the breach in the dike of effective Western resistance...
...somewhat puzzled the staff of the Russian Research Center here. The Party's First Secretary has suggested that the Soviet Union suspend repayment of bonds worth 265 billion rubles (about $65 billion). Though a member for twenty years of the Russian Research Center has termed it "a breach of confidence unparalleled in Soviet economic history," the new moratorium will probably not change the Soviet economic system radically. For, coupled with his announcement April 8, Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government would not float any new loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been...
Then Sukarno stepped boldly into the breach he himself had opened. As Djakarta's sunset gun heralded an end to the day's fasting for the Moslem Ramadan, Sukarno summoned 69 leading Indonesian politicians and 60 of his top-ranking military leaders through a driving tropical downpour to the vaulted, marble-floored State Palace. In one bank of chairs on one side of the hall sat the civilian politicians of all persuasions. Facing them across a space of 20 feet sat the military men-who are, to a man, disturbed by the politicians' bickering. With a proper...
...officer. It was asserted, and confirmed by the all too innocent scientist, that he maintained relations with Communists and ex-Communists, specifically with his brother, whom he visited more than once a year. Again, of course, no one alleged that these contacts did in fact involve him in any breach of secrecy whatever...