Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war the appearance of sweet reasonableness sometimes can be as powerful a weapon as a supply of atom bombs. Last week, at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped a psychological blockbuster. After purring about peace and understanding all week long, Chou announced that the Chinese Communists were willing to confer with the U.S. on the question of "relaxing tension" in the Formosa area (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Taipei the Communist proposal hit a solid wall. After the U.S. said it would confer only if the Nationalists participated, Chiang Kai-shek's government immediately and firmly took the position that it "will reject any proposal to sit at the same table with representatives...
...West Germany were ratified, Russia's Molotov was threatening that if the treaties went into effect, a Big Four meeting would be useless, because there would be nothing to negotiate about. Now that the accords have been ratified,- Russia was angling for a four-power Foreign Ministers' conference in Vienna. Purpose: to approve the Raab-Molotov deal made in Moscow, which promises to end Allied occupation of Austria (TIME, April 25). The three Western powers, after consultations among themselves, replied that they would be pleased and ready to have their Foreign Ministers confer with Molotov-but only after...
...requested an item veto for some hundred years, but Congress has always rejected the idea, fearing permanent loss of its purse power to the President. The Byrd bill, however, provides for flexible but strong control of the President, since the Constitution would be amended only to enable Congress to confer the item veto power by statute. If the President got out of hand, Congress could pass a new law to meet the situation; if the legislature did not choose to withdraw the power completely, it could restrict the executive merely by redefining the scope of the words "item" or "provision...
...cheered pictures of Mendès and booed the procession of Old Guard leaders to the presidential palace, France's ship of state had been in irons-sails thrashing, the crew in shouting confusion. Night after night, old President René Coty had climbed from his bed to confer with pouchy-eyed politicians, while ample Madame Coty padded about the palace kitchen in her silken peignoir, serving endless cups of coffee...