Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basic questions about NATO are kept from public eye by "security," but despite the professional optimism of press-agents, a grey area of ambiguity of authority exists as to what would happen should a real emergency occur. But NATO members seem fearful of examining these awkward truths too closely. Instead, covering their indecision with phrases, the Council members decided last week to abandon the term "integrated" air defense in favor of "unified" air defense and to turn the problem over to NATO's Permanent Council for later decision. In effect, this was to pass the buck to Eisenhower...
...President and 100 accompanying reporters is going to produce any dramatic change in the relations of these countries and the U.S., nor even much greater understanding on the part of these underdeveloped and nationalistic countries of the meaning of the "American way of life." What can and hopefully will occur is a greater realization and understanding of the problems these countries face; from their relations with China to the centralistic tendencies of their economies to the overriding fact of their poverty...
...most perplexing problems facing the Department occur in the area of the middle group courses. To some extent they are aggravated by the Department's quantative approach to the number of concentrators, with its concern to retain the marginally interested student within the Department. And again the nature of the field, with its disparity between advanced professional techniques and an undergraduate approach, intensifies the problem that confronts many other departments in the College--that of withstanding the polar attractions of pre-professional orientation or of superficiality. Concerning the middle course group area, Dunlop's committee has only just begun...
Where U.S. troops encamp overseas for any length of time, two things often occur: coveted, cut-rate PX goods appear in the local black market, and the American boys find their way into the hearts of the local girls. South Korea, with its 50,000 G.I.s, is no exception: some $90,000 in U.S. goods vanishes monthly into Korea's flourishing black market, and in Korea no fewer than 575 Korean girls are wives of U.S. servicemen...
...archaeology, major discoveries don't usually occur in any meaningful chain of events. The Lydian room was uncovered after extensive exploration of the precinct of the House of Bronzes (called by the excavators "H.B."), just a few days before the campaign...