Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to make the U.S. responsible in advance if the conference should break down. The U.S. State Department had indicated its preference for a brief meeting of the heads of state, leaving the foreign ministers to get down to brass tacks. Such arrangements, wrote Foreign Minister Molotov, "cannot but condemn the meeting to failure." There had also been talk in Washington of "negotiating from strength." Molotov straight-facedly called this: "Inadmissible pressure on the conference...
...Austrian refugee girl with whom Scobie falls in love while his wife is on vacation, manages superbly to make her character sympathetic and pitiful without a touch of the maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible that it is impossible to condemn her. Without careful performances in there two roles, Howard's job of showing the desperate insolubility of Scobie's problem would have been incredibly difficult. As it is, however, his quiet agony of indecision is totally convincing...
...worked quietly and dexterously. Moving softly from delegate to delegate, he had offered something for everybody. He teased Japan with talk of increased trade, supported India's claim to Goa, wooed Egypt's handsome Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser and the other Arab states by voting to condemn Israel. Most important of all, he concluded and signed an agreement with Indonesia on the troubled question of the dual nationality of 2,500,000 overseas Chinese-they had a year to choose whether to become citizens of Indonesia or Communist China, thus neatly excluding the possibility of their choosing Nationalist...
...caused by Schmitz' veto of a Washington Department of Physics request that J. Robert Oppenhiemer '26 be invited to give a series of lecturers there this summer. At the same time that it asked scholars to end their boycott, the Washington faculty group voted, 56 to 40, to condemn Schmitz' decision to be Oppenheimer...
...days later, in Manhattan, a far more powerful body, the U.N. Security Council, condemned Israel for the recent bloody armed raid against Egyptian forces in the Gaza strip (TIME, March 14), in which 38 Egyptians were killed. It was one of the rare moments when the Russian and the U.S. delegations agreed on anything: the vote to condemn Israel was approved unanimously by all eleven members of the Security Council...