Word: consult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reeves landed, detectives, led by the chief of the special branch, showed up at his simple room in the Priory of St. Benedict and handed him a deportation order signed by the Minister of Interior. He was given half an hour to pack. Reeves was assured that he could consult a lawyer before departing, but before his aides could get through to one, the bishop was on his way to the airport, where a South African Airways plane was due to leave for London within a few minutes. Ten detectives stood around the plane until it taxied away...
...buddies made a trip to Mexico and took the trouble to hide their travels from their superiors. Upon re-examining the record of a routine lie-detector test, the FBI found signs that Mitchell was something less than emotionally robust. Agents also discovered that he had been consult ing a private psychiatrist, presumably out of concern for homosexual tendencies...
...ground on day and night, some delegates complained they were tired and wanted to go home. But the U.S. let it be known that U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer's freezer was stocked with food for several weeks and that Secretary of State Herter was prepared to stay and consult as long as necessary. Little by little the soft-line advocates were stiffened by orders from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling opposition...
They bind themselves to three monastic principles: 1) poverty, 2) celibacy, and 3) obedience to the authority of the brother-prior, who in turn "is to consult his brothers, to listen to the feeble as well as the one with most authority, in order to seek the will of Christ for the group...
...response to Phoumi's call a flurry of local army commanders hurried in to consult. Beating time to reedy pipe music as he presided over a table laden with Scotch whisky and French wines, Phoumi assured a reporter that his troops were racing the Pathet Lao Communists through the roadless jungle to the capital, added earnestly: "If you let the Pathet Lao into the government, they will organize and work hard and sooner or later they will control the whole country...