Word: differences
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days of dramatic top-level visits, it no longer seems to matter that leaders cannot agree. Everybody seems pleased enough just to meet and differ (the Russians are able to show their people how diligently they are seeking peace). At one party at the pagoda-like French embassy, Malenkov, Mikoyan and Molotov knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer...
...Rosenthal measures several instances, against a profession of non-sectarian principle, and concludes that Brandeis is guilty of "sincerity bred hypocrisy." The three chapels, he points out, appear equal in size but in fact differ in capacity, the Jewish chapel holding twice as many as the others. It is alleged that Brandeis also violates its ideals "negatively" by luring non-Jewish students with scholarships...
...Among Pigeons. Back in Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell replied: "It was certainly not our desire to spoil the visit in any way, [but] we are bound to differ on the issue of imprisoned Social Democrats, which we regard as an issue of principle." George Brown, the right-wing trade unionist who is contesting with Nye Bevan for the party treasuryship, had been the most persistent of Khrushchev's hecklers at the dinner. He had been swamped with mail since "I scattered the cat among the pigeons," he said, and proudly added: "Mr. Khrushchev told...
...farmer speaks mostly through his farm organizations. If the farmer's voice sometimes seems garbled in transmission, it is because the farm organizations themselves differ greatly in background, makeup, leadership and outlook. The nation's major farm organizations...
...game was played under California rules, which differ in several minor points from the International Code...