Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technically off duty. U.S. military authorities (who might have been able to head off the whole uproar by promptly court-martialing Girard) argued that he was on duty during the rest period, was therefore subject to military discipline. Finally, Rear Admiral Miles H. Hubbard, U.S. representative on the joint commission which settles jurisdictional disputes, reluctantly ordered Girard turned over to the Japanese for trial with, he thought, both State Department and Pentagon approval...
...joint commission of officials of the two teams met to discuss the question of the elegibility of Burke and a sprinter named F.J. Quinlan. It seems that the London papers had declared them to be professionals, apparently because of some extramural running which the pair had done. The commission hastened to absolve both of them, and denounced the English papers which originated the controversy...
...Backwardness. In speeches to a joint session of Congress and the National Press Club last week, President Diem talked earnestly on three themes. Time and again he thanked the U.S. for its outpouring of "moral and material aid," without which Viet Nam could not have "overcome the chaos brought about by the war and the Geneva accords . . I could not repeat too often how much the Vietnamese people are grateful for American aid." Unequivocally he denounced Red China and Russia: "Since Communism is not neutral, we cannot be neutral...
...both Houses of the Soviet Parliament voted (1,347 to 0) to ask the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to set up a joint committee to seek ways to ban all nuclear tests immediately...
...last week, every move the dictator made to keep the upper hand went wrong. He ordered military police to end student demonstrations that broke out when his secret police arrested the joint Liberal-Conservative presidential candidate, Guillermo León Valencia, in Cali (TIME, May 13). But outside Bogotá's La Porciuncula Church the troops stormed the church itself as well as student demonstrators. Just as a priest raised the chalice at the altar, two tear-gas bombs exploded. Eyes streaming, the priest turned to the congregation. "A curse on the tyrant!" he thundered. "A curse upon...