Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Present at the Creation, Acheson...
...PRESENT AT THE CREATION, by Dean Acheson. In these well-written memoirs, Harry Truman's Secretary of State recalls the formative years of the cold war with much wit, knowledge and insight...
...Soviets agreed on a limited test-ban treaty that halted their nuclear tests in the atmosphere, thus reducing the worldwide peril from radioactive fallout. In 1968, they jointly backed the nonproliferation treaty aimed at halting the spread of atomic weaponry beyond the present five nuclear powers (Britain, China and France in addition to the U.S. and U.S.S.R.). The U.S. and the Soviet Union also signed treaties that ban nuclear weapons from outer space and from Antarctica, and they have drawn up one protecting the ocean floor. Yet not until now have the two superpowers touched upon the most fundamental nuclear...
...other 23 were arrested Monday night in raids by the Cambridge police. They posted bond after their arraignment Tuesday afternoon, and most were present outside police headquarters yesterday...
...Game affect far more than they clarify. In each the normal rectangular order of human environments, the square corners on which houses are built, is disrupted in favor of a world filled with senseless detail. The aviator has landed complaining that the woman he loves isn't present. Renoir cuts to a radio in her room, following the announcer's voice. The room is bright and elegant, unlike the night-time of the airfield-and full of ornament. Her dressing table overflows with gleaming toilette articles. A mirror atop it reflects her maidservant twice, filling much of the frame with...