Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potsdam Conference ground to a halt while whole phalanxes of foreign officers fretted over who should enter first. They finally found a room with three doors so that Churchill, Stalin and Truman could come in simulta neously. Another near impasse was averted at the conference's end when Stalin insisted that he be the first to sign, since the British Prime Minister and the U.S. President had each been first in two previous conferences. Harry Truman refused to make a fuss about it. "You can sign any time you want to," he snorted. "I don't care...
...laying down a strict policy of staying out of Arab politics on the ground that, as Arafat says, "one enemy at a time is enough," El Fatah has so far been able to operate independently in the host Arab countries-chiefly Jordan. Disputes with rival fedayeen organizations are another matter, and on one occasion two groups of raiders almost shot it out, each thinking the other was Israeli. Last month, the fedayeen set up a council to coordinate raids between El Fatah and its two chief rivals, the Palestine Liberation Force and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...presented one such argument while defending Rap Brown on charges of in citing last year's riot in Cambridge Md the state has won a change of venue the ground that the trial would create a dangerous situation in Cambridge Kunstler, who believes that Brown can get a fairer trial in Cambridge which has a 35% Negro population,' argued last month that the Sixth Amendment guarantees his client a speedy trial "in the vicinage" of the alleged crime The phrase is nowhere in the amendment But, citing a letter from James Madson Kunstler contended that the framers...
When the above-ground construction begins, the 95 girls living in Bertram and Eliot will move to the new Currier House, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 1970. The Bertram-Eliot work should be finished in a year, Mrs. Bunting said, and by 1971 girls should be able to return to the dorms...
...reduce criticism to an exact science, 1883 was the natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond any man's capacity to absorb without the saving intercession...