Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual, eight terms in Cambridge are more than ever a matter of what he chooses to make them. The resources of a distinguished university are still available; they are simply being worked much more intensively. Harvard's plush may be wearing thin, but the foundation and the framework are still first-rate...
Atomic, Inc. Framework of the bill, reported out by a unanimous vote...
...single division in the U.S. was fully trained and equipped. Even the staff organization, which was ready in 1940 to guide the growth of the war-born Army, had come loose at the seams. Eisenhower's flat prediction: "It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that would compare with what...
Mexicans call the monument "La Gasolinera" because of its likeness to a giant filling station. It was built by Porfirio Diaz not as a monument but as the central portion of his legislative palace. But revolution caught up with Don Porfirio, the palace was never completed, and ultimately the framework was sheathed with stone, to stand as an ungainly testimony to Diaz's overthrow...
...court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return the French would expect continued Cambodian loyalty in an otherwise disaffected colony. France would still control Cambodian foreign affairs, and her prewar administrators would remain as "royal advisers." But Cambodia's new status, formalized by treaty, was France's way of rewarding Cambodia...