Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have certain political opportunities which the world organization will be asked to block. We can stop any real action against us with our veto. True, the Assembly may be a troublesome forum for stirring up anti-Soviet sentiment. But this matter of 'free discussion' is still complicated, you know. After all, comrades, we shall have something to say about what subjects lie 'within the charter' and therefore are subject to discussion. And the Assembly offers certain opportunities to discuss social and economic matters upon which our viewpoint will be of interest to many millions...
...Preserved the Assembly's right to discuss anything covered by the charter...
...home must ratify it before it becomes binding. Simplest ratification procedure would be Saudi Arabia's: King Ibn Saud had only to glance at it and say: "Afarim!" ("Well done!"). The British Cabinet is empowered to ratify treaties, but only after Parliament has had an opportunity to discuss them and raise any questions it wishes...
...members of the faculties and Governing Boards. The fifth chapter deals with the problem of general education in Harvard College and the recommendations contained there in will be considered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences next fall. Until the faculty has acted, it would be premature to discuss the proposed changes in any detail. Suffice at to say that they look toward the introduction of a new group of courses given under the direction of a special committee with all the prestige and autonomy of a department, but concerned not with any special but with the general education...
...turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...