Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informed," said the message, "that you may wish a meeting to discuss an armistice providing for the cessation of hostilities and all acts of armed force in Korea, with adequate guarantees for the maintenance of such an armistice. Upon the receipt of word from you that such a meeting is desired I shall be prepared to name my representative . . ." The meeting, Ridgway suggested, could be held aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia in the harbor off Wonsan, a port 70 miles deep in Communist-held territory...
...which I thought was brilliant and I [asked] General Bradley to read that memorandum . . . During dessert, maybe before the dessert plates were taken out, the Secretary of State again brought up the Korean question ... I interrupted to say that before we got into that too deeply I wanted to discuss Formosa further. The only really violent discussion Secretary Acheson and myself ever had took place for a moment...
...people are mostly illiterate Indians and mestizos living under towering Andean volcanos, delving and spinning much as their ancestors did in Incaic times. Most noteworthy products: rice, bananas, balsa wood, Panama hats, shrunken heads. Most urgent needs: education, roads, earthquake damage repair, all of which President Plaza hopes to discuss this week with Washington lending authorities...
...laboratories, he flew back to Buenos Aires for a little chat with President Perón, then hurried home. Back in Amsterdam, the professor said that Perón's atomic expert, Austrian-born Dr. Ronald Richter, was not under arrest when he was there, but refused to discuss Richter's research work. Then he went into seclusion to prepare a report for his government...
Energetic Drift. Like the British Constitution, the Yale code is unwritten; it is simply in the air. It echoes back to the 19th Century, to the days of William Howard Taft ('78) when undergraduates carried bangers (canes), hired sweeps (servants), and felt it bad form to "talk stand" (discuss marks). They were the days that soon inspired the fictional Frank Merriwell, who would give his all against Harvard ("Old Yale can't get along without him!"), and tight-lipped Dink Stover ("I'll play the game . . . We'll see who'll lead...