Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the time there was only the quiet give-and-take among scholars. At Burr, the visitors assembled to hear speeches and discuss them...
...sense that the U.S. was in the midst of a serious updating of its foreign policies, designed to meet the new Russian approach and to deal with a world relaxed by Russian displays of nonbelligerence, trade negotiation and foreign economic aid. The generalized NATO proposal, which Dulles will discuss broadly in Paris this week with the NATO ministers' council (see FOREIGN NEWS), was one instance-and a symbolic one. The U.S. plans no weakening of NATO's essential defense function, but wants to add to defense a solid community of interest growing out of political and economic pursuits...
Throughout, Bulganin sat silent. At midnight the dinner broke up, in an atmosphere of sullen ill-feeling. When someone proposed a toast to "our next meeting," Khrushchev gave him a cold stare. Later, he growled: "It is far more difficult to discuss things with you Labor leaders than with the Conservative government of this country...
...fight (see above) without much success, Harold Stassen and his wife were on the point of going home when up barged Andrei Gromyko. "Have you met Khrushchev yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the subject of disarmament...
...each of the conference's three sessions there will be three short speeches followed by an informal discussion. Saturday morning's speakers--science historians Giorgio De Santillana and Henry Guerlac, and Harcourt Brown, Dean of M.I.T. and president of the American Academy of Science, will discuss the "Interaction of the Sciences and the Humanities"; Ernest Nagel, professor of Philosophy at Columbia, will chair the meeting and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will initiate the discussion...