Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Envoy Ennui. Though the White House maintains that Nixon is anxious to pick ambassadors with particular care, there are more than a few signs that the Administration simply has not been able to find men of the right caliber to fill such important posts. Tokyo was a case in point. After being turned down by at least four men, including John D. Rockefeller III and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Nixon selected a little-known career officer, Armin Meyer, who is experienced in Mideast affairs but a newcomer to the Far East. Unlike his two predecessors, who were influential with...
Freund explained that the delay results from waiting for the Committee of 15 to hold hearings on the "particular individual" before sending him a letter...
...Council of the Harvard Graduate Society for Advanced Study and Research endorses the policy of the University as expressed by the Board of Overseers in dealing with a student minority who last week occupied University Hall by force. We believe that police action was unavoidable and necessary in the particular circumstances in order to preserve the institution itself...
...cello at seven, and was fingering a sax at nine. While playing with Singer Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds on a Manhattan gig, Hawkins, then 19, was heard one night by Band Leader Fletcher Henderson, who signed him and kept him for eleven years. Hawk developed his particular sound-breathy, but also powerful and deep-grounded-in part, as he once said, "because I was trying to play over seven or eight other horns all the time." In 1939, while working with his own combo in New York City, he recorded a version of Body and Soul...
...group, which called itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, voted to walk out of commencement exercises to express a "general disatisfaction with Harvard " and, in particular, support of the eight strike demands. The group made no decisions on specific tactics, but voted down a proposal to burn diplomas. They stipulated, however, that as a group they would not discourage any individual from taking such action...