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Word: conferred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Titi & Lorelei | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Speaking before a near-capacity audience at the Littauer Center of Public Administration, Tugwell chided Eisenhower for not directly employing the special powers which the qualifying statements of the Constitution implicitly confer upon the chief executive in such special circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tugwell Chides Ike for Failure To Use Power | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, April 22--Secretary of Labor Mitchell will confer with President Eisenhower Thursday on possible new laws to prevent misuse of union funds...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Anti-Western Agitators Threaten Khalidi's Government in Jordan; Ike Predicts End of Arms Race | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

...certainly one of the most important trials in American history. I am confident that fair minded people conected with Harvard, whatever their politics, will agree that there is nothing in Dr. Oppenheimer's public record which should bar him from any honor or any appointment which Harvard can confer. I am therefore more concerned lest there be such a reaction to this protest that whatever Dr. Oppenheimer will say in his lectures will be drowned in a tide of sympathy.... Sanford A. Lakoff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lakoff Re-Examines Oppenheimer Trial | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...some members for a local union, then I can get a charter, then I can get some more members, then I can collect dues, then I can have a union treasury, then I can buy a Cadillac, then I can take trips to Florida to confer with other union leaders." Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing to put out $20,000 of his own money to start a Teamsters' local. Nobody ever accused Dio of caring about the working stiff; it was simply a first-rate investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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