Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...childhood and the celebrations of the Fourth of July. It was always customary in those days to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. . .We don't follow that custom any more, [but] I hope that everyone of you, some time today, will read that document once more...
...General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du Bois that he had no business submitting it in the first place. Then the U.S.-Australian plan leaked to the press. The Dutch announced that "in view of the publication of the strictly confidential document*. . . The Netherlands delegation has requested instructions from The Netherlands government." They "discontinued" negotiations "for the time being...
...willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism, and as wise as Lincoln, lacking only Lincoln's tenderness, and his doomed and tragic devotion. This book is a major document of our times...
...Louis, 38 top-ranking Episcopalians took their church's official leadership to task for obstructing church unity rather than promoting it. Target of the document was a "Statement of Faith & Order" recently prepared by the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...
...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...