Word: quids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruised the same sea in the family yacht Angelita. He surrendered eight sugar mills. Not only was the Castroite Popular Dominican Movement proscribed, but the police even began to look for its leader, Máximo López Molina. Last week, as time drew near for the U.S. quid pro quo at an OAS meeting in Washington, López Molina was "found" sunning himself in a rocking chair on a boardinghouse porch...
...danger in all such ideas is that in their essentials they require that the U.S. offer a quid without realistic hope for a Russian quo. Surely, one Western demand in any negotiations should be that the Communists tear down the wall between East and West Berlin; in fact, the West should have prevented the wall's construction in the first place-a point increasingly recognized in Washington...
...wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...swarm of Harvard professors who have joined the lemminglike migration to the Kennedy Administration happily noted a quid pro quo: Phillip E. Areeda, a White House legal adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, departed Washington to join the faculty of Harvard Law School...
...buses from 32 states rolled into Albuquerque last week, 1,129 teenage voices inside howled in eerie chorus. The tunes sounded oddly like Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here and Let Me Call You Sweetheart. They came out as "lo, lo, omnes adsunt,/ Quid curae est nobis/ Quid curae est nobis . . ." and "Vocabo te amicam/ Ego amo te/ Audiam te dicer e/ Te amare me . . ." It was the Junior Classical League, holding its seventh national convention at the University of New Mexico...