Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliffies reacted quickly. "Students didn't take the scheme as a personal insult since the whole idea is so ridiculous, especially the idea of Radcliffe girls having to pay for a date," Mrs. Margaret Sangree, Bertram Hall head resident, explained...
When one girl dared to dissent, pointing to an alleged "one-half the dormitory" which stayed home on Saturday nights, she was promptly silenced. "If a girl wants a date for Saturday night she can have one by Saturday afternoon," her more confident colleagues asserted...
...advisers settled the key elements of crisis policy. Military element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward...
Neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam strongly disapprove of Sihanouk's diplomatic recognition of Peking last July, but their differences really date back to ancient tribal feuds and jungle rivalries. South Viet Nam declares that Cambodia allows Communist Viet Minh guerrillas to cross its territory to stage raids in South Viet Nam; in retaliation, South Vietnamese troops picked up a border marker, moved it 1½ miles into Cambodia and threw a minefield around it. Thailand has given haven to opponents of Sihanouk. In a huff at these acts by his anti-Communist neighbors, Sihanouk accepted increased economic...
Impetus for any solution will evidently have to come from London, rather than from the settlers or the nationalists. The suggested establishment of a Parliamentary Commission is a valuable step, for by arriving at a decision before the scheduled revision date of 1960, it would prevent the outcome from being a political result of the forthcoming British election, as now seems to be the danger...