Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mortal Wounds. "What is interesting" about a masterpiece, Painter Annigoni argued, is always "the surface as the master left it, aged, alas! as all things age, but with the magic of the glazes preserved, and with those final accents which confer unity, balance, atmosphere, expression-in fact all the most important and moving qualities in a work of art. But after these terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found...
...speculated that Egypt's Nasser might seize the Suez Canal in retaliation. But State did not rate the chances very high. Secretary Dulles was in Peru when Nasser shrieked his challenge (see FOREIGN NEWS). Dulles got on the radiotelephone to Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. Hoover conferred with President Eisenhower, and the President dispatched Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to London to confer with the British and French on lines of counteraction...
After Ike's intestinal operation, Harold Stassen had some second mental rum blings, ordered his private popularity poll of vice-presidential candidates. Armed with the poll's statistics, Stassen told President Eisenhower of his decision to support Herter. In a 15-minute confer ence Stassen got neither a yes nor a no from Ike, in keeping with Eisenhower's view that the Vice President should be nominated at the convention, not in the White House. Both before and after his conversation with Ike, Stassen talked by telephone to Herter. Stassen was neither encouraged nor rebuffed; high-minded...
...third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout the show. The lyrics alone, some authored by a cloistered Poor Clare nun with whom Miss White had to confer through a veiled grille, made many a gimp limp in her audience and dimpled many a wimple...
...that Lord Radcliffe. the eminent constitutional lawyer who arbitrated the tangled boundaries between new India and new Pakistan in 1947 would be sent to Cyprus to work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." Then Eden set about fencing in Radcliffe's area of maneuver. Radcliffe may confer and chat with British officials on Cyprus and "any others who may wish to speak to him," said Eden, in fact with anyone except the man who mattered most, the exiled Greek Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios. "If the Archbishop were to take action to denounce the terrorism," Eden conceded...