Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese...
...Image down to 7-to-2 second-favoritism that the Derby field was perfectly set up for a horse of his come-from-behind style. At least four of the 14 horses, including Forward Pass, could be counted on to tire each other out in a fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
...nature is to dream big dreams, to spin off grand ideas, to talk persuasively in his own behalf. While repeatedly paying homage to Johnson and the "Johnson-Humphrey Administration's record," he is now investing most of his oratorical capital in what lies beyond. He sorely needs to establish a personal identity again. "I am my own man," he told a West Virginia television audience. "I am my own personality with all its limitations...
First, I was not one of the "high sources" (nor do I know who was) for the statement that "Harvard turned down in 1953 a Ford Foundation grant to establish an African studies program." I know nothing of this event; at the time I was not even teaching at Harvard...
Harvard turned down in 1953 a Ford Foundation grant to establish an African studies program here, high sources in the History Department have revealed...