Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your freedom is preserved," he said on television. Berliners were pleased and somewhat reassured. But they were even more pleased by the prospect of next week's visit by President Nixon. As the Berliners see it, Nixon's determination to press on with his visit, despite the present tension, serves notice on the Communists that the new American President will back up the old U.S. pledge to protect Berlin...
...present Berlin situation develops into a genuine crisis, it will perhaps reflect above all the realities of a divided Germany. The wartime Allies, of course, remain the final authorities in Berlin. But between statute and practice there is a large grey area in which the two Germanys have room for maneuver and can, up to a certain point, manipulate the other powers for their own domestic advantage...
...late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal, and in Parisian salons there was a delicious feeling that the "serious mutual insult" cited in the Delon divorce might well spread through several more households-and government bureaus-before the end of "L'affaire Markovic...
...opposition in the Democratic Action Committee, a loose alliance of eight conservative parties that have been promoting the anti-government campaign. Their demands include a return to the parliamentary system under which Pakistan was ruled before Ayub's bloodless takeover in 1958 and also the abolition of the present presidential election system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus tends to perpetuate Ayub's rule. If it is not abolished, the eight parties plan...
...rebels grew from 1,500 to 5,000 overnight. Using clubs, tear gas and bayonets, the Guardsmen and police dispersed numerous bands of student strikers; 21 students were arrested. Determined not to give in to student demands for a voice in faculty appointments and amnesty for all demonstrators -past, present and future-Chancellor H. Edwin Young vowed that the troops will remain "as long as needed." But at week's end, he announced that they would be withdrawn for "tonight, Saturday, Sunday and forever"-provided there were no new disturbances. - At Duke University in Durham, N.C., some 70 members...