Word: informs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake, but the fact remained that the Premier, already effectively deprived of his airports and his radio stations, was now in danger of becoming a Premier without an army. Exultant, President Joseph Kasavubu fired off a cable to U.N. headquarters in Manhattan: "Have honor to inform you of composition of new government of Republic of Congo" and ca'mly began forming his Cabinet. But Patrice Lumumba was sitting tight in the Premiers office. For the United Nations, all this was a venture into uncharted political water, far beyond anything that its original architects had envisioned. In just...
...Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence. C-B (played expertly by gap-toothed Terry-Thomas) discovers the file on Gaillardia among the rats in the archives: it is an island which, being of no value, was granted independence 40 years before-though no one bothered to inform the Queen's man in Gaillardia of this, or anything else; the last previous message to London was congratulations on the accession of Victoria...
...government took pains to assure Turkey's allies that the new regime was dedicated to maintaining Turkey's commitments to NATO, CENTO and the West. One of Gursel's first acts was to dispatch a colonel to inform U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren: "Tell the U.S. that we want to build a Turkey on the model...
...Israeli Parliament assembled last week for a humdrum budget debate. Then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion rose and, in a voice breaking with emotion, said: "I have to inform the Knesset that one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the 'final solution' of the Jewish question-that is, the extermination of 6,000.000 of the Jews of Europe-is under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel...
...This time of specialists, of reporters schooled in political science, the mysteries of utility rate structures, philosophies of education, the physical sciences, high finance, health and medicine, aviation, and other areas where to be ignorant journalistically is to invoke the scorn of our better-informed readers. Never before have people so hankered for the fact, spun out plainly and at length. We need to tell the story of our age in simple, living language with precise meanings. We will not only inform but we will educate a generation...