Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remove these forces, except in cases of "an acute overseas emergency," without the consent of a majority of the Brussels pact powers, including ex-enemies West Germany and Italy...
...take English 10, a mandatory course for all English majors, may now take that course in his first year. It also means that science majors who satisfy the elementary requirements in their field can advance into upper level courses to the limit of their qualifications, and with the consent of the department...
...Adenauer came out strongly for an end of the Allied occupation of West Germany and for unfettered German sovereignty. "We ask this," said der Alte, "for our national honor and our justifiable national feelings." Once Germany has its sovereignty, he said, it would apply for admission to NATO and consent to restrictions on German rearmament. The restrictions would have to be voluntary, for since the death of EDC not even Adenauer will agree to discriminations imposed by outsiders; the restrictions would also have to be real, for otherwise France would blackball the German bid for NATO membership...
...markedly different views seem evident [at Manila]. The Philippines, Thailand, Australia and, somewhat more mildly, New Zealand, have shown a preference for a strong security organization based on a NATO-like defensive military alliance. The United Kingdom and France, with tacit if reluctant U.S. consent, prefer a loose treaty of mutual defense subject to the constitutional processes of each participating state. The U.S. is caught between the two contradictory positions held on the one hand by its best friends in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, and on the other by two of its outstanding allies in Europe...
...imperial palace burned down in 1945, Hirohito and Nagako have lived on the palace grounds in an unimpressive, unpretentious 14-room house that began its life as an airraid shelter. Each day they breakfast on oatmeal, toast and bacon, have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger drink...