Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdrawal of the two "prestige" colleges was not a serious blow to the prestige of NSA, Sharkey said. "Dis-affiliations are common in the Fall, when each school is faced with the NSA membership dues...
...swipe at Britain's unilateral dis-armers, he said: "The treaty was not achieved by agitators sitting down in the public highway, but by statesmen sitting around the conference table." And he offered some invigorating invective against the "immature nonsense of socialism," which is trying to turn Great Britain into Little England. In a fourth Conservative election victory, said Butler, his party "must reject and repudiate these absurd aberrations of the left-wing mind...
...offer to shoulder 30-40% of the initial $2 billion cost of building the 25-ship fleet force. Other NATO members likely to participate are Turkey, Greece and-barring a sharp swing to the left at home-Italy. Belgium and probably The Netherlands also will sit in on final dis cussions, starting in Paris Oct. 7, to settle details of financing and equipping the force. The big question last week was whether Britain would join...
...flaming feminism that most antagonized the traditionalist Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...increase of the dis count rate, some leaders in Congress complained that President Kennedy had reneged on the Democrats' campaign pledge of "easy money." The Administration replied that the discount-rate rise is aimed at affecting only short-term credit in the U.S. and not long-term borrowing for mortgages and business expansion. U.S. dealers in foreign securities also grumbled that they now face hard times; such foreign shares as Royal Dutch Shell and Aluminium Ltd. plummeted on the New York Stock Exchange...