Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige in the Arab world. A forged secret annex to a British Cabinet paper gummed up relations between British trade unions and their counterparts in Africa's new nations, most of which have been organized with the help of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The document purportedly ordered British unionists to infiltrate the I.C.F.T.U. "as an alternative instrument of Western influence [in Africa] . . . since it is difficult to accuse the trades unions of serving colonial ends." The forgery was widely reprinted in Africa, was accepted as genuine by many Africans despite 17 misspellings...
...diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
...wears a discreet grey fedora instead of a wide-brimmed Stetson, is taking seriously his responsibility as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. After a Kennedy task force recently submitted its report on the nation's space goals, Lyndon flew off to Texas to study the document, came up with some recommendations of his own. Among them: tighter Government control of space activities, a priority list for projects, a crash program, if necessary, to develop more powerful rocket boosters...
Kennedy was deeply impressed by the report, viewed it as a fundamental document on broad economic policy for the early stages of his Administration. One line in particular caught his eye: "He misreads the role of confidence in economic life who thinks that denying the obvious will cure the ailments of a modern economy." Kennedy studied it, looked up from the report and told Samuelson...
...chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became "a covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance...