Word: ironclads
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...federal legislature, blacks would get equal representation with whites. Also proposed was an ironclad prohibition of racial discrimination in the future. Worst of all, in the eyes of the federation's shocked whites, was the suggestion that any one of the three territories should be permitted to secede completely after a five or seven-year trial period of the new system...
...English are said to dearly love a lord, and the second Lord Redesdale is there to prove that they dote on a dotty peer-especially if he has six daughters, mostly zany, mostly blonde. An impressive photograph of the six Honorable Misses Freeman-Mitford, in their ironclad British tweeds, appears in this autobiography by one of their number. An industrious, middle-aged newspaper reader with total recall would be able to attempt a quiz about every blessed one of them, roughly thus...
...atomic punch, De Gaulle has long argued that the first step toward nuclear disarmament should be a general scrapping of "means of delivery." This would mean that the U.S. would have to do away with its long-range rockets and bombers-which it is not prepared to do without ironclad assurance that the Russians would do likewise. Failing such an agreement, De Gaulle was determined to push ahead with his program to build a French H-bomb by next year. With 500,000 of his troops tied down in Algeria, De Gaulle was also unenthusiastic about another disarmament measure likely...
...negotiations in 1954 after Premier Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry. Generally, Loudon prefers to leave most of the on-the-spot negotiating to local managers. Says he: "By comparison, they are certainly more important and have greater responsibility than ambassadors today." All of them go forth with one ironclad rule from Loudon: "Be a good citizen, obey the laws, but never get mixed up in politics. Never contribute to political campaigns and never pay baksheesh. Never. Never." He does much of his traveling between London and The Hague, where the Group keeps separate headquarters, flies back and forth...
...right out and say "nonsense," but the fact remained that Nikita's demand for total disarmament was so absurd and impractical as to be insulting. It paid no more than token heed to the all-important Western insistence that any disarmament agreement is meaningless and dangerous without an ironclad control system. It ignored the self-evident fact that no totalitarian government, whether in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Asia, would freely consent to dismantle the military forces on which its power rested...