Word: spent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting on many fronts. He spent a hard-working weekend in the quiet of Camp David. He summoned Secretary of State William Rogers. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and top CIA officials to grapple with a painfully familiar topic: Viet Nam. Back in Washington, Nixon invited reporters into his office and vowed that he intended to stand behind his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clement Haynsworth, "until he is confirmed." He accused some of the judge's critics of "vicious character assassination." Then Nixon held a two-hour meeting with congressional leaders of both parties...
...Redgates spent last night in temporary housing provided by the BRA in Brighton...
...Center, like the M. I. T. Center, which recently published a brilliant book on The Angolian Revolution, has spent considerable sums on books that make people in Washington uncomfortable. What has been equally impressive, in my view, has been the will-ingness of the Center establishment (to speak in the foolishly fashionable idiom) to sponsor research which by no stretch of any imagination can have policy implications. Will you believe that the Center-our nefarious, war-mongering running dog of capitalism Center-in 1967 sponsored a conference in Kenya on cultural relations between East Africa and Southeast Asia...
...task is to transport truckloads of nitroglycerine to an oilfield to blow out a blazing fire there. Clouzot takes great pains in getting across the proper atmosphere. The first half of the film or so is devoted to probing the squalor, primitivism, and baseness of the town. Clouzot had spent some time in Brazil working on a documentary, and his intimate familiarity with the repellent conditions in towns used as bases for American business ventures is boldly apparent in the film. He built an entire town from scratch for his set north of Nimes in France, and was even toying...
...Faculty spent two hours yesterday discussing plans for its own reorganization, but it adjourned without voting on any of the proposals...