Word: consults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other officers and committees named by the Convention. Elected leading committees (club, section, state, district, and national) have the right to make decisions (in accordance with policy) that are binding on the lower bodies. These higher bodies must be elected t regular intervals. Their duty is to consult to the maximum possible before making decisions, and to fully explain the reasons for them. The duty of the lower organizations is to express their views before a decision is made by the higher body, and to carry it out when it is finally arrived at. We feel that this feedback system...
...court. There, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs to consult his friends and get a gun from the Grand Duke Dmitri. Creeping downstairs again, the prince finally told Rasputin to pray-then put two bullets into his body...
Matter of Duty. The warmth lasted until the 1962 Sino-Indian war in the Himalayas. When the Indian army abruptly collapsed in Assam, Washington and London hastily poured in weapons and military supplies. The Pakistanis were livid. Officials charged that President Kennedy had broken his promise to consult with Ayub before making any arms shipments to India...
...found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust jacket to learn that Brown went on to graduate from Howard University, and will enter law school this fall. Instead. Brown sifts steadfastly and self-consciously through the dung heap of his past. A little discipline of the sort that altered the course of Brown's life...
Gornitzka's office is the executive suite or club of the men who consult him, his parish vehicle the coast-tocoast jet (he travels 140,000 miles a year). One day he may be preaching from a pulpit in Seattle; the next morning he may be in Manhattan, counseling TV, insurance and hotel executives. Last week he was in St. Paul counseling officials of Northwest Airlines, for whom he is a paid consultant...