Word: conference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about now is disengagement of U.S. forces out of Berlin, Germany and Central Europe-a longstanding Soviet objective...
Strategy, rather than dollars and cents, was the Commander in Chief's concern during the 2½-hour meeting with the military leaders. (Even as he prepared to confer with the President, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, in a speech read for him in Manhattan, opposed as "folly" sharp cutbacks in conventional forces.) Unlike last year, the military men were not asked to sign a public statement supporting the 1961 defense budget...
...controversial 72-year-old architect made a flying trip to Cambridge this weekend to view the site and confer with Dean Bundy and the Committee on the Practice of the Visual Arts, headed by Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
President Eisenhower, preparing to confer with Chairman Khrushchev this week at Camp David, Md., described to his press Conference in Washington the full measure of what was involved in the confrontation. Dedicated Communists, said Ike, believe that their system is a "progressive step in the long march of civilization. We do not. We do not have a real system; we have a way of life. We are concerned in giving every individual the maximum freedom to develop himself...