Word: inspectional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unwittingly organized this resistance by committing two early blunders. First, it hired off-duty firemen to inspect the buildings to determine if they met health and safety standards. The firemen were probably qualified to check building standards, but they could not answer the questions of anxious and frightened housewives about the renewal program itself. The question, "What's going to happen to my home and my family?" went unanswered...
Armored Car. The night before De Gaulle was to inspect the Ecole Militaire on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Paris gendarmes swarmed over the ground, searching the buildings for weapons and interrogating officer students and teachers. De Gaulle showed up next day on schedule, but (in a concession to danger rare for him) cooped up inside an armored Citroën limousine with bulletproof windows. According to the official story from Sûieté headquarters on the Rue des Saus-saies, police had discovered a plot on a civilian's tip, in the nick of time...
...next U.S. response was to light a match in the dark to inspect all its broken circuits with Europe. This involves seeking new points of contact and areas of agreement that will satisfy De Gaulle, while preserving the U.S. ideal of a strong and united Europe as part of the cold war alliance. To achieve this aim, the U.S. would certainly have to climb down off some major points of past policy, though there was little readiness to rush to beg De Gaulle's pardon or give him everything he demanded...
Phillips Brooks House has helped plan the mental health phase of the overall Peace Corps Program; John Clifton, President of PBH, plans to go to Harlem in February to inspect the project...
...release, the U.S. had agreed to pay Fidel Castro a ransom of $53 million in drugs, medical equipment and other goodies (see following story). As the planes bringing back the prisoners prepared to take off from Havana's San Antonio airport, Castro delayed their departure by demanding to inspect the first shipment of drugs. Then he watched a demonstration of Soviet MIGs in the air space required for the prisoners'-take-off. At last, beaming like a black-bearded Santa Claus, Castro waved the prisoners toward freedom. One pilot got a vicarious sort of revenge: he gunned...