Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...
...Change. Cold war has shattered the U.N.'s first foundations (the wartime Grand Alliance), mangled its basic assumption (Big Power unanimity), surrounded it with perils undreamed of by most of its founders (the H-bomb and Communist expansionism). The revolt against colonialism has all but doubled U.N. membership. Yet all these vast transformations, says Dag Hammarskjold, make the U.N., or something like it, not less but more essential. In this unyielding conviction, Hammarskjold believes that the nations are in San Francisco not to bury the U.N., but to reappraise...
Before Japan can cross the threshold to full membership, two-thirds of GATT's 34 members must approve her entry. Seventeen nations, including the U.S., already have signed or are negotiating contracts with Japan under the GATT regulations...
...white Southern Baptist Convention, biggest Baptist group in the world (membership: 7,883,708), has taken an equivocal stand on segregation, last year commended the Supreme Court for "deferring" application of its ruling on desegregation. Two Negro Baptist conventions have 7,133,357 members, operate separately from their white coreligionists...
With her right to her personal beliefs was not questioned, her dismissal was based on her continued membership in the party after 1947 and her statements to the committee as to the nature, purposes, and activities of the Communist Party, showing a lack of "perception, understanding, and judgment necessary in one who is to be entrusted with the responsibility for teaching the children of the Town...