Word: confer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Turkey grudgingly gave its consent to a Greek request that the troop rotation be postponed. Archbishop Makarios flew blithely off to Alexandria to confer with an old friend and ally, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. His reported mission: to secure Nasser's permission for Greek and Russian fighter planes to use Egyptian bases in the event of a Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
Vellucci indicated that he will confer with Dr. Benjamin Sachs of the Cambridge Health Department, with the State Health Dept., and with the MDC "with a view in mind to finding a solution to this dangerous, unhealthy problem...
Spinning Wheels. It was the fear that Khanh might be the country's last hope for survival that prompted Washington to rush to his support, chiefly through Defense Secretary McNamara, who has shuttled repeatedly to Saigon to confer with Khanh and to join him on tours of the countryside. Little by little, it became clear to McNamara that the doughty Vietnamese needed more-not less-U.S. personnel and equipment if he were to make a dent in the growing Viet Cong strength. Four months ago, the wheels began turning. McNamara's recommendation was seconded by then...
...full-scale search by an army of FBI agents he had ordered into the state. The Mississippi Highway Patrol came alive, worked with the federals in beating the swamps of Neshoba County and questioning rural residents. President Johnson sent one time CIA Director Allen Dulles to Jack son to confer with Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson on the state's law-enforcement capabilities-and its willingness to cooperate. After a one-day trip, Dulles reported back that "a very real and very difficult problem which will take many months to solve" exists in Mississippi. But, he insisted...
After a thorough tryout, Judge Boldt pronounced his new courtroom "greatly preferable" to the old design on a number of counts. Because the jury box and bench are far apart, he found that he could confer with attorneys off the record without having to dismiss the jury -a time-wasting maneuver in other courtrooms. He also noted a "calmness and ease" during trials because "everybody could see and hear without strain." He liked especially his more direct view of the witness stand ("I can practically take a head-on look") and his eyeline relation to the jury ("The judge...