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Winter came on and Wadsworth, notwithstanding "the House was not half finished within," moved in anyway. The Overseers suggested completing it on credit, then thrusting the IOUs at the legislature. As indirection and pathos had failed before; so the fait accompli failed here, and Harvard finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin...
...biding their time "Slow penetration" is the party line. "This amounts to a silent, courteous revolution, gaining ground through good manners, a revolution carried out with the backing of the law, with no haste, moving from one election to the next, finally pre- senting the nation with a fait accompli, without provoking strong reactions, and with hardly anybody realizing what is happening...
...first time in the last few years that the United States has made a major policy shift without sufficient inter-allied co-ordination. In 1950, High Commissioner McCloy announced that Germany would be rearmed. The French, who had different views on this matter, found themselves faced with a virtual fait accompli, and proposed a unified force (the beginnings of E.D.C.) as a compromise instead of a German army. The Korean War also illustrated the possible consequences of uni-lateral action. The situation that developed when General MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria resulted from U.S. failure to consult with the other...
Syria, which opposes any project that might benefit Israel, bristled that the canal was an armistice violation; from U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Vagn Bennike came a warning to the Israelis: "Cease working." The Israelis, who believe in fait accompli, put their bulldozers on three shifts. But when the U.S. suspended aid to Israel for its defiance of U.N., Israel capitulated and agreed to let the Security Council decide the dispute...
Sharett, a cautious legalist by temperament, will probably pay more heed to the U.N. and to Western wishes than his rambunctious predecessor. For Sharett believes in the give & take of negotiation, while B-G believed more in the power of a fait accompli. The two clashed violently over Israel's defiance of the U.N. on the Jordan dam project, and over the Kibya massacre...