Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
...move toward peace. The president has done nothing but shifted his slippery ground. We have made no progress except the withdrawl of Lyndon Johnson. Instead we have Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. There is no solution in sight. The War could be stopped if one hundred million Americans stood and said: let's stop it. More than half the American people think it is a mistake, but they don't have the initiative or energy to stand up and do something. Let's do something before it is too late...
...could to help the poor. The Department of Agriculture reacted by beefing up its food-stamp program by $20 million and pressuring 256 counties to distribute more surplus food to the poor. The U.S. welfare bureaucracy guardedly promised to hedge restrictive eligibility requirements, even though Congress would not have stood for their outright repeal. The omnibus housing bill moved closer to eventual passage. From all quarters, Government and business moved to provide more jobs...
...postwar government. Without ever having trained as a banker, he attracted the attention of Guy de Rothschild, rose to become chief administrative officer of France's Rothschild Bank in the 1950s. Without ever having delivered a public speech, joined De Gaulle's own party or stood for election, Pompidou, at 50, was appointed Premier by De Gaulle six years ago. From the start, he performed with grand personal style and only an occasional political misstep...
...meanwhile, was more immediately concerned about the export subsidies, which could put an added strain on its own trade position by increasing the flow of French goods into the country. As a result said William M. Roth, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, the U.S. stood ready to "protect its interests" by imposing countervailing duties on French imports. Both American tariff law and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade provide for such duties; essentially they are designed to increase the cost of imports to offset government subsidies paid on products by exporting countries...