Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal agreements to negotiate, and not even a communique to mark the trip, and none were needed. The talk ranged from Commonwealth trade and the Common Market, such touchy matters under Diefenbaker, to Canada's role in the inter-allied nuclear force proposed for NATO. On every count, Pearson declared himself "quite satisfied...
...Meuse valley, every village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their nature or because they count on finding in a setback-but aren't they mistaken?-some chance for themselves...
...proposal was introduced at a Committee meeting last week. It would make the tutorial a half-credit course running throughout the year, much like General Education Ahf. However, no grades would be given, and the course would not count toward rank list standing...
...warned, moreover, that beneath the patience that characterizes Russian foreign policy there is a "constant probing for opportunities to expand Soviet power wherever it can be done without excessive risk." The West, therefore, can count upon Soviet moderation and restraint "only to the extent that it is absolutely clear in keeping the Soviets informed about where caution must be observed." "This in turn," he said in passing, "requires Western leaders to be absolutely clear in their own minds as to the boundaries of Western interests...
...Chains that Release. For these men, prison is not so much a confinement as a release. "It pleases me that everything should be forbidder," muses one of them. "I want to be forbidden to raise my little finger. I want exact count to be kept of my coughs, my glances, my sighs. I want no one to forget the slammed door, the lost handkerchief, the hidden cigarette, the broken shoelace; I want to be bound so tight that at the slightest movement the chains will bruise my flesh. I want to be pierced by light, I want to be absolutely...