Word: consult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional demands, L.B.J. was most irked by Fulbright's suggestion that Administration officials "consult with the committee before they decide to resume bombing." Johnson regarded that as a challenge that could not go unanswered. Just before the 21-hr. White House briefing ended, he picked up a copy of Never Call Retreat, the last volume of Bruce Catton's Civil War trilogy, and read a passage describing how a group of Senators demanded that Lincoln reshape his Cabinet to their specifications to assure greater harmony. "Mr. Lincoln had no intention of doing this," the President drawled...
...explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety-colitis, exhaustion, "testicular commotion" and finally even the delusion of facing an "attack by crooked lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult a psychoanalyst, an experience almost as painful for the hero as it is for the reader, who may or may not be persuaded to hang on for more than 100 pages while Author Berto composes an intense but trite idvertisement for himself and incidentally reminds the critics yet once more...
Harvard will probably consult with the Cambridge Historical Commission before making its decision, but will do so out of courtesy since the Commission's authority over historical landmarks is limited to four Cambridge's "historic districts" - and the Sparks House is outside the boundaries of all of them...
Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, is in Thailand on a 10-day trip to consult with Thai authorities on the founding of a new university...
...nobody bothered to check on just where the mountains were. "I don't think we fully realized," Schlesinger writes airily, "that the Escambray Mountains lay 80 miles from the Bay of Pigs, across a hopeless tangle of swamps and jungles." Surely somebody deserves censure for failing to consult...