Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal over. Outside the Western Hemisphere the anti-Red China bloc could count on the votes of a hard core that includes Turkey, Greece, Thailand and Liberia, plus the votes, or abstentions, of whatever countries refuse to consider the issue "unimportant." A maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural resolution, like one adopted last year, to postpone a head-on vote. Some countries which profess, out of fear, to favor Red China's admission could be expected to vote for such a resolution on the pretext that it is a "question of timing...
...What had alarmed him, along with oilmen and officials of other big gas-producing states, was the new gas decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, June 14). The Federal Power Commission, said the court, has authority to regulate natural-gas rates charged by "independent producers," i.e., those who gather gas within a state and then sell it to interstate pipeline companies...
Then, on November 30, the three were separately called to Dean Bennett's office, discharged, and directed to cease all experiments they were carrying on with grants from the U.S. Public Health Service. They were told to gather up all their property and leave at once. A few days later, the locks on their laboratories were changed...
...Neutral? While Eden flirted, Georges Bidault seemed to gather resolution and strength. "You don't get results by begging for peace," he said. To the Communist proposal that the military men discuss "regroupment areas" for Laos and Cambodia, thus setting up Communist enclaves in those countries, Bidault retorted defiantly that the only problem there was for the Communist invaders to withdraw...
...Communist move that Dulles, had anticipated in Berlin was not long in coming. "Almost as rapidly as they could issue orders and gather their forces," as one Administration official said, the Viet Minh began their assault on Dienbienphu. It was quickly apparent that, in spite of high words from the French, Dienbienphu was going to fall. Dulles began to search for a countermove that would shore up the West's bargaining power. He decided to propose a conference on "united action" in Indo-China by ten powers-the U.S., Britain, France, the Associated Indo-Chinese states, Thailand, the Philippines...