Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, McElveen refused to waive extradition. But Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen, calling the murder a "dastardly, heinous, cowardly deed," immediately set the legal wheels in motion. McElveen, formerly an honorary member of the Louisiana state police, changed his mind and returned voluntarily to jail and a murder charge. Meanwhile, FBI agents and state and local authorities searched for possible accomplices; police believe that there were three gunmen...
...CONGO. When Patrice Lumumba was murdered by his own native political enemies, a worldwide propaganda drive turned the unstable and squalid rabble-rouser into a martyr and tried to pin the deed on the CIA. Attempting to woo the Afro-Asian segment of world opinion, the Kennedy Administration joined the clamor against Lumumba's former enemies and supported the U.N. war against Moise Tshombe's Katanga province. Since then the U.S. has switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing...
...greater the stability at the level of ultimate weapons, the more uncertain it becomes at the level of conventional ones. The more the gap between limited wars and conventional weapons on the one hand and nuclear arms on the other is stressed in both word and deed, the less reason there is to fear escalation. The less reason to fear escalation, the greater the probability of limited conflicts. Hence the tension among allies, some of whom are mainly worried about all-out war (the U.S.) while other worry just as much about limited ones (Europe). Hence, also, vacillations among pacifists...
Lamont, whose father helped finance the University's main undergraduate library, has been a member of the Corporation--which includes the five Fellows, Harvard's President and Treasurer--since 1952. The Corporation holds deed to all the University's lands and must approve the budgets of the College and all the graduate schools...
Miss Julie, slightly maddened by her monthly indisposition and by the enchantments of Midsummer Eve, seduces Jean, her father's attractive valet. Horrified by the deed, she first begs Jean to run away with her and then, realizing his despicable nature and remembering her own pedigree, commits suicide...