Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this team, Macmillan had to get Britain past the immediate crisis brought on by the blockage of the canal. He had to restore some self-respect to the Tory Party. In foreign policy, his first priority was to re-establish the old confidence between the U.S. and Britain. It was a task easier for Macmillan, who during the Suez crisis had described himself as "half American," than for Eden. Washington, which rebuffed all recent attempts of Eden...
...Last week, smiling broadly, Prince Souvanna Phouma announced the settlement: Pathet Lao would be integrated (i.e., legalized), not only in Laos territory, as promised at the 1954 Geneva conference, but also into the royal government and army, and it would be able to establish workers', students' and women's movements throughout the entire country. Sighed a U.S. observer: "The Royal Government of Laos is about the only government left in the world which hasn't heard of the classic Communist maneuver of conquest by truce negotiation...
This achievement involved defeating three or four of the top players in the country and playing against teams from Canada, the West Coast, New York, Phila-delphia, and other powerful aggregations. After graduating, he repeated his victory in the individual tournament of 1926, to establish himself as one of Harvard's greatest players...
Eventual passage of the bill would probably have no effect on out-of-state voters under 21. Though the legal requirements for establishing residence vary from state to state, the term usually is interpreted as meaning the "intent to establish permament residence." In a recent case in New York State, however, two out-of-state students were allowed to vote...
...Pulse, Inc. uses the technique of the doorbell-ringing personal interview. Its interviewers, all married women (men might incite neighborhood gossip), visit a cross section of homes in 64 markets. When they establish that a family has watched TV that day or the day before, they jog the viewer's memory by displaying a program schedule for the period and asking what was seen before or after normal household activity, e.g., shopping, dishwashing, linked to particular hours of the day. Every tenth interview is checked by a letter to the family from Pulse. For the average half-hour nighttime...