Word: depart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whitten now things the first volunteers will fly into the famine zones in about two weeks. Last week he estimated the first flights would depart thisweek...
...Chinese. Obviously, unless the news picks up, most of the visitors will soon depart-as have Huntley and Cronkite-to return when and if developments warrant. But already the Paris talks have broken all records for press coverage of peace negotiations. Fewer than 100 correspondents, for example, were in Reims to witness the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, and only 120 went to Kaesong for the opening of the Korean truce negotiations in 1951. The only major news organization not represented at the Paris talks, in fact, was Peking's New China
...others interested in visiting their Congressmen on behalf of the Poor People's Campaign may obtain reservations on round-trip buses by calling 445-0283. One group will leave Boston at 10 p.m. Tuesday, May 28; a second will leave at 10 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. Both groups will depart Washington for Boston at 10 p.m. Thursday...
Universities are particularly inclined to depart from considerations of grades and tests in choosing students who show unusual initiative. Harvard, for example, rejected one applicant who ranked third in his high school class while accepting a classmate who ranked 15th and did not fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
Trudeau's program will not depart dramatically from Pearson's policies. His toughest problem is Canada's constitutional crisis. Though Trudeau is a French Canadian and personally popular in Quebec, he is ideologically at odds with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson and other Quebecois who want a quasi-independent status for the French-speaking province. Trudeau strongly opposes French separatism and argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also...