Word: conference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...Gomulka, who was so surprised by the visit that he didn't even have time to deck Warsaw's streets with welcome banners. But Khrushchev had more on his mind than just a social call. The pair disappeared to an isolated hunting lodge in northern Poland to confer over the grave issues on the Berlin agenda. One is West Berlin, where Allied troops are still entrenched more than four years after his ultimatum that the Allies get out. The other bone in Nikita's throat is Peking, for the Sino-Soviet quarrel has seemingly passed the point...
...broaden its base and confer on the office the kind of prestige that he enjoys in his own right, De Gaulle last October sought and won the nation's support for his proposal that future heads of state be chosen by popular vote rather than by an electoral college of 81,000 local dignitaries. Balking at what his foes called a return to "personal rule" and "enlightened Bonapartism," the Assembly swiftly reacted by toppling Premier Georges Pompidou's government; De Gaulle retaliated by dissolving the Assembly, and intensified his crusade to annihilate the "rival and warring parties...
...that end, a U.S. mission headed by Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Averell Harriman and U.S. Army General Paul D. Adams flew to New Delhi to confer with Indian officials on defense requirements. Soon after, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys arrived with a similar British mission. Their most stunning discovery: after five years under Nehru's hand-picked Defense Minister, Krishna Menon, the Indian army was lamentably short of ammunition even for its antiquated Lee Enfield rifles...
...approach that the committee will adopt has not yet been decided nor has the group had its first formal session. Gill and Doty plan to confer together before the end of this week in order to schedule meetings and set up a tentative organizational scheme...