Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That afternoon President Johnson echoed that same sentiment at a Rose Garden swearing-in ceremony for the new ambassador. Said Johnson of Max Taylor's new job: "There are no illusions about the difficulty of the challenge. There are, likewise, no illusions about the responsibility or the importance of the assignment...
Kites & Flags. When Pearson's government recently hinted that "the realities of the situation" might force Canada to depart from its policy of nonrecognition of Red China, Diefenbaker rose in Commons to demand "whether this was just a case of kite flying, or does it represent a change of viewpoint on the part of the government?" Replied Pearson: "It does not represent a change of viewpoint." "So it is kite flying," snapped Diefenbaker. When Pearson revealed in the House that the government is making a study of the growing secessionist pressures in French Quebec and how secession would affect...
...Malawi, formerly the British central African protectorate of Nyasaland, now African nation No. 35. At the stroke of midnight, as fireworks lit the sky over Blan-tyre's Central Stadium, the Union Jack was hauled down in the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In its place rose the black, red and green banner of the newly sovereign nation of Malawi...
Found. Light towers rose like periscopes out of the next truck, to be fed by generators in another truck. At either flank of the main stage, trucks pulled up and opened for business as dressing rooms. Still another truck spewed out neatly packed flats, stairs, props, scenery and more lights. The last truck contained enough collapsible bleachers and folding chairs for something over 1,500 people...
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska when homesteaders still lived in sod houses on the plains, trained in Nebraska as a botanist, largely self-educated in law with only one year of Harvard Law School for formal training, Pound rose to the highest ranks of American scholarship, profoundly affected the course of American legal thought, and presided over the golden age of the Harvard Law School...