Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief among them is, of course, Red China. Heightening their bitter ideological quarrel with Moscow, the Chinese charged that four years ago Nikita Khrushchev had welshed on a promise to help them make atomic bombs because he wanted to present "a gift" to President Eisenhower on the eve of the Camp David talks. In a bitter radio attack, the Chinese said that the "real aim of the Soviet leaders" in negotiating the nuclear test ban "is to compromise with the U.S. in order to maintain a monopoly of nuclear weapons and lord it over the socialist camp." Peking added savagely...
...which is Communist, demanded reforms. Youlou promised labor a say in a new, single-party government that he planned to proclaim. Satisfied, the unions eased off. But fortnight ago, word began circulating that Youlou was about to renege. Promptly the unions called a general strike; last week, on the eve of the strike, two labor leaders were arrested...
...eve of the 16th anniversary of Indian independence, 2,000 demonstrators marched outside Parliament in Delhi, waving banners and chanting: "Leave the throne, Jawaharlal." Inside the horseshoe-shaped chamber, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru faced the first no-confidence motion in his 16 years in power...
...President Herbert Hoover was making an astonishing recovery from the gastrointestinal bleeding that brought him near death in June. He now spends some time every day at his desk in his Waldorf Towers apartment. But Hoover canceled his traditional birthday-eve press conference on doctors' orders, instead issued a written statement. "The longer I live and the more I see," it said, "the more confidence I have in the American system of constant good will and service to other nations, and of free enterprise and personal liberty. We have a great way of life-let's keep...
Foot leaves his hero on the eve of taking office as Minister for Health in the postwar Socialist government of Clement Attlee. It was the only real national power Bevan ever attained, and he put into operation Britain's system of free medical and dental services. The final ironies of his career lay in the future, when the prosperous electorate repudiated Socialism and bit the hand that fed it. What is more, it bit with Nye Sevan's free false teeth...