Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "it is bound by the United Nations Charter to take the matter to the Security Council . . . Under the Charter, members of government, including heads of government and foreign ministers, may represent a member nation at the Security Council. If such a meeting were generally desired, the U.S. would join in following that orderly procedure...
Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting associated with British colonial power...
...went to the University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...
...segregation laws of his native Southern Rhodesia. But. at an interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute in all of Southern Rhodesia's history...
...foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local commitments would be allowed to run their course. When the A. & R. F. asked the N.F.I.P. to stay out of its bailiwick for at least a year, N.F.I.P. replied: "Individual diseases are not the personal property of individual organizations...