Word: meetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call a conference of all Moslem nations, which may take months to organize, if it comes off at all; and 2) convene the 14-nation Joint Defense Council, but not until November. The four countries most deeply involved in the anti-Israel fight, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, may meet somewhat sooner to try to coordinate their efforts...
...city and declared himself a victim of "love at first sight." But she reacted differently to two big-city mayors with less liberal qualifications. Of Chicago's Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell out of the Protestants," she said in Los Angeles. "What we really want are our civil rights...
Except in Russia and East Germany, Westerners may travel freely throughout Communist Europe. If they trouble to stray outside the tourist reservations, they meet with a warmth and welcoming generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the world. In the countryside, peasants offer to share their meal and provide a place to spend the night. This innocent unworldliness, one of the redeeming features of peoples living under Communism, is as yet unspoiled by the worst aspects of Western culture now being imported for the sake of hard currency. As a tourist attraction, it beats striptease and roulette and is surely...
...spotters began to track locust concentrations and swarms. A system of field scouts was set up in 42 countries to report locust whereabouts. The Anti-Locust Research Center, established in London in 1921, coordinates this information and forecasts locusts' flight direction. Local governments dispatch spray planes to meet the hordes or treat breeding areas...
...along with West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, have recently raised bank interest rates (some of them several times) in an effort to restrain borrowing. Almost everywhere in Europe, factories are humming at or near their capacity, but consumers are spending money so fast that some firms cannot fully meet the demand for their products. French automakers, for example, are making many domestic buyers wait for delivery of new cars because they are giving priority to export orders...