Word: obtaining
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Meanwhile, Negroes resumed desegregation activities in downtown Birmingham. Four tried unsuccessfully to obtain service at two white lunch counters. The counters were closed and the four left quietly. There were no incidents. Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo said that 100 patrolmen were stationed on the outskirts of Birmingham in case major trouble develops. "We will not take an active part until we are absolutely needed or are called for," he said...
PARIS, April 7--The United States does not want even limited disarmament, and is stalling in the disarmament negotiations. The Soviet Union does want a limited disarmament agreement, and has made significant compromises in an effort to obtain one. This is the opinion of a top NATO scientist here, involved in developed armament systems for the U.S. and the allies...
...16th century, the Arab states, one by one, fell to the Ottomans and passed into the long sleep of Turkish domination. Then, in World War I, Arab nationalists rebelled against their Turkish overlords and fought beside the British armies in the Middle East, confident that they would obtain unity and freedom. Moviegoers who have seen Lawrence of Arabia know the gloomy result: under League of Nation mandates, most of the Middle East was handed over to Britain and France, and frustrated Arabs wasted themselves in futile rebellions against the colonial powers. World War II did little better for the Arab...
...grace. He is among the few masters who know every boy in their houses by name. Leaving organized activities to undergraduates, Master Finley devotes most of his time to individual members of the House and his recommendations have helped many of them to get into graduate schools and to obtain jobs. An urbane after-dinner speaker, Finley annually organizes a series of house dinners to which Dean Acheson, James Reston, and McGeorge Bundy have recently come as guests. To a large degree he has earned for the House the devotion felt for it by the past and present members...
...theoreticians were happy at the turn of events, but many other Yugoslavs were not. They found it virtually impossible in some areas to obtain the services of a plumber or electrician. To get a pair of shoes repaired today takes a month. Belgrade's famed candy and pastry shops are nearly all closed, and the state-baked pita-a Serbian pastry filled with fruit-is no edible substitute...