Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century martyr who chose death at the stake rather than recant his religious views...
There had been earlier agreement on having no agenda so that the delegates would be free to tackle any topic they chose. The U.S. welcomed the arrangement because it bought some time for the new Administration in Washington to map its negotiating strategy...
Vitriolic Denunciation. The Communists chose the political aspect of the struggle as their subject for the opening session, framing their points in tough and seemingly inflexible language. Speaking first, Tran Buu Kiem, chief delegate for the National Liberation Front and also its shadow foreign minister, demanded the creation of a "peace cabinet" in Saigon that would treat the Front as an equal. He then launched into a vitriolic denunciation of the U.S. for its "barbarous and monstrous crimes" and of the Saigon regime, those "ferocious and bloodthirsty puppets." Kiem's colleague from Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, was considerably more restrained...
Lewis B. Ward, professor of Business Research and head of the Faculty Committee for the Computing Center, said that the Committee chose the machine which was most economical. The Committee also considered the Univac 1108 and the Control Data Corporation...
...round table represented a compromise that did not completely satisfy anybody, but it left intact the vital interests of all parties and permitted each to view the conference in whatever way it chose. It satisfies the Communist demand that the Front sit down as an equal partner in a four-party meeting. At the same time, since the table will be flanked on two sides by smaller, rectangular tables for secretariat personnel, the allies can point to that as proof that the conference is a two-sided affair. Picayune though that may seem, it is an important point; it allows...