Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...16th-century Italian sculptor is cited by name. Shakespeare confused the oracle of Apollo at Delphi with the one on the island of Deios, and provided Bohemia with a seacoast it has never enjoyed. On top of that, the dramatist dared to jump 16 years between the third and fourth acts...
Basket Three is the major area of Western concern. It deals with increased human contacts between East and West, includes the flow of information, the right of travel, improved working conditions for journalists and cooperation in matters of culture and education. The fourth basket-by far the weakest-involves follow-up arrangements. It merely provides that senior officials of the signature nations will meet in 1977 to see how the agreements are being observed. The charter is regarded as a single document rather than as four linked but separate agreements (which the Soviets wanted, presumably to be able to play...
...security council would direct its criticisms eastward as well as westward. The fact that the two nations most interested in a permanent council were Yugoslavia and Rumania-Eastern Europe's most independent-minded Communist states -was extremely unsettling to Moscow. In the end, delegates settled for the fourth basket's provision for a follow-up meeting in Belgrade two years from...
...coups and countercoups, and opaque behind-the-scenes deliberations by the country's confused and divided military rulers. The major problem facing the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.) was to set up a new government under leftist Premier General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The previous Cabinet-the fourth since the April 25, 1974 revolution-collapsed this month when Socialists and other moderates resigned. Reason: they were protesting an M.F.A. plan to set up local revolutionary councils that would bypass the authority of the elected Constituent Assembly (TIME, July 28). At week's end, as the once peaceful...
...effect of the diminished American presence abroad is a refreshing return of old-fashioned politesse on th part of hoteliers, waiters and shopkeepers, who are collectively crying "Yankee, come back!" On the Fourth of July this year, the Georges V Hotel in Pari sent champagne (Prince de Venoge, '65 to the rooms of all American guests. For the first time, at the Fête du Louvre, programs for the Paris Opera Ballet wer available in English. Some European hoteliers suggest to guests that they can have a picnic lunch à la Manet for fa less than a bistro...