Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater, he had instructed his advisers to provide him with ideas. They had come through with a vengeance. At the ranch last week Johnson showed reporters three thick, black looseleaf notebooks crammed, he said, with "thousands of pages from some 50 agencies." But he was also drawing on a document of his own, an article he wrote in 1958 for the Texas Quarterly, which has become his and his advisers' favorite statement of the Lyndon Johnson political philosophy...
...military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them in his full regalia as prefect of the district. His independent spirit soon landed him in prison. After one torture session, during which he refused to sign a document serving Nazi propaganda, he feared that he would not be able to hold out next time, and tried to kill himself by slashing his throat with a piece of glass. But he recovered. By October 1941, Moulin had escaped France and arrived secretly in Britain, where he joined the Free French movement...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. As if it were some kind of Security Council document, the late U.N. Secretary-Gener al described this strange and moving jour nal as "a white paper concerning my nego tiations with God." The book portrays in aphorisms, essays, and even haikus Hammarskjold's mystical efforts to resolve agonizing religious doubts...
Segal detailed a "harrowing" list of examples to document the "growing gulf" between the white and colored nations. From increasing African and Asian support for Red Chinese policies on one side to Portuguese atrocities in Angola on the other, he said, "the distance be- tween rich and poor, black and white is getting greater, not smaller...
Fears for the Future. On the ceremonious closing day of the council, Pope Paul formally promulgated the impressive and progressive-spirited schemata on ecumenism and the church, as well as a shorter document on the Oriental church. Before the third session ended, the bishops also voted approval of the revised declaration on non-Christian religions, which firmly asserts that the Jews were and are not guilty of deicide; this declaration may be touched up between sessions and will be given final approval at the-fourth session, which may not take place until...