Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life. Thus old-line Propagandist Nikolai Pogodin in a Moscow play, We Three Went to the Virgin Land, has his hero Marochka soliloquizing: "Now, tell yourself, why did you give such a lightning-like consent to go to the Virgin Land? Was it because of the fear of a [party] trial? I swear it is not only the fear of a trial . . . Over there in the wilderness I'll start a new life. The past will be buried. Everyone will be drinking; I'll not. I'll behave. I'll be almost a saint...
...healer, Ralph Bunche, who last won peace in Palestine seven years ago, and many highly placed observers think that just such a skilled and universally trusted international hand is needed there now. Climbing first out of his white U.N. plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely last November. Each side agreed to pull back its forces and let the U.N. go ahead and fix the demarcation lines...
Last week, in one 24-hour period, Barnes announced his biggest bag to date: two industrial giants-American Telephone & Telegraph ($17 billion assets) and International Business Machines ($600 million assets)-signed consent decrees to end the suits against them...
...Eisenhower Dallas News thought that the President's failure to protest when his name was entered in the Illinois primary "indicates that [he] will consent to run if he gets the nod from his medical advisers ... It seems reasonable to interpret it as [his] hope...
...announcing his plans, Stevenson made clear that he had "reached no final decision at this time regarding possible entry into other state primaries." In some states he would have little choice, e.g., Oregon, which permits a candidate's name to be entered without his consent...