Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle protested against this situation as early as 1958, when France had only just begun building its own independent force de frappe, and Eisenhower had turned down a proposal for a U.S., British and French triumvirate to direct the West's global strategy. From that point on, the general gradually withdrew more and more of the French military part of the shield from NATO. Last September he proclaimed: "In 1969, at the latest, the subordination known as 'integration' which is provided for by NATO and which hands our fate over to foreign authority shall cease...
...Watson has been discussing the problem with MDC Commissioner Howard Whit-more. They have decided to put a spotlight on the footbridge that crosses Storrow Drive, to examine the present lighting of Weeks Bridge, and to install, on the north side of the river, an emergency telephone, with a direct line to the Basin station of the MDC Police...
...alternative solution is the creation of an autonomous religion department under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, modeled after the Comparative Literature Department. This department would appoint men as needed to teach specific courses. The problem of deciding, time after time to appoint Divinity School men to direct undergraduate courses would thus be avoided...
...London's Mayfair, office workers stumbled around in inky, icy blackness. At the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, diplomats read their documents by candlelight. Scotland Yard sped emergency flashlight details out to direct traffic at major intersections. Throughout great areas of southern England and the Midlands the blackout spread. Sections of Birmingham sputtered and went out, as did Maidenhead, downtown Derby and scores of other places...
...European painters found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever more secular society, and they depicted it with theatrical relish...