Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle played subtly on Adenauer's growing fear that the U.S. will eventually withdraw from Europe. De Gaulle argued powerfully that U.S. disengagement would be more than offset by the new Europe spearheaded by France and Germany, which would be an equal partner with the U.S. in the West, and eventually, he prophesied, a "third force" capable of coming to terms with a mellowed Soviet Union. As a first, institutionalized step toward this third force. De Gaulle called for "organic cooperation" between the French and German armies-a thinly veiled bid for West German financial and technical assistance...
President had its limits. On any issue apt seriously to impair Germany's relations with its other Western partners, Adenauer would find a huge majority against him in the Bundestag, including not only the Socialist opposition and the Free Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...
...Annulments are most commonly granted on grounds that either partner entered into the marriage with reservations, usually about having children, or was under outside compulsion to get married. Worldly Italian maidens send friends or relatives premarital postcards hinting at such reservations or compulsions, which can later be used as evidence if needed...
...squopped wink cannot be squidged again until it is de-squopped, either by the original squopper or by a squopped player's partner who manages to squidge a third wink atop the second and spill the squopper...
...Secretary Arthur Goldberg did before his appointment to the Supreme Court was to plead in vain with the telegraphers not to strike. Last week his successor. W. Willard Wirtz, who used to ride the North Western home from work every day when he was Adlai Stevenson's law partner, was also getting nowhere. At week's end, as Ben Heineman riffled through mounds of letters from his commuters urging him to hold fast, the telegraphers dug in for a long siege. At that point, the liberal Milwaukee Journal was reminded of the arrogant legacy...