Word: confer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worries over man killing man, the Vatican announced that Paul will go to New York on Oct. 4 and make a plea for peace before the U.N. General Assembly. Sometime that day he will celebrate Mass in either Yankee or Shea Stadium and will probably find time to confer with President Johnson...
...Said Lyndon Johnson: "I urge every person in a position of leadership to make every effort to restore order in Los Angeles." As Pat Brown hurried home, Johnson dispatched LeRoy Collins, former director of the Federal Government's Community Relations Service, and White House Assistant Lee White to confer with the Governor...
...last-ditch effort aimed at getting help from federal authorities and dramatizing their plight even further, the residents announced that they were renting a bus to send a delegation today to confer with Robert Weaver, head of the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and other officials who might be able to help. And who was helping to set things up on the Washington end but another prime contender for the Saltonstall seat - Salty himself. "He's been really wonderful on this thing," says Goldin, "very helpful all along...
...aged social worker who has befriended him and who lives in one of those indescribably ugly housing projects. Lumet has the two play out an extremely dramatic scene on her balcony, from which several of her building's hideous cousins are in full view. Her sympathy and his despair confer humanity on that sterile setting seen in the early morning light...
Paraded from ceremony to ceremony, the delegates at hand spent much of their time untangling their motorcades, found themselves protected by such rigorous security measures that it was almost impossible to confer privately even with each other. Although Sukarno got off three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno...