Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-held U.S. attitude was that a summit conference was useless if it was nothing but a forum for propaganda; before any summit could live up to expectations, foreign ministers should explore the possibilities of genuinely solving cold-war issues. Harold Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed...
...villa's imminent destruction was France's Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, which set up a cry of "Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De Gaulle government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged to find another site. Le Corbusier...
While recognizing the faults of the students in provoking the riot with snow, jeers, and Nazi flags, many New Haven citizens and university officers have joined students in condemning what has been called "storm-trooper tactics" on the part of the city police, one of whom triumphantly observed, "These guys started the fight...
...winter of 1931-32, a gang of 300-odd storm troopers invaded the university in Frankfurt and beat up leftist students. Tillich stood horrified in the midst of the melee, and in the investigation that followed took a vociferous part against the Nazi thugs. As soon as Hitler came to power the following year, Tillich read in the newspaper that he had been dismissed from the faculty...
...Sacramento St. fashioned a 12-foot statue of a nude kneeling woman which drew a neighbor's complaint. University police approved the statue, and a member of the Cambridge squad termed it "a work of art," adding "it would be a shame to tear it down." The storm also stopped construction work on Quincy House and the new Leverett Towers, and shut down the Radcliffe administration office. Though the University held classes as usual, many 'Cliffies, fearing the long walk, stayed in bed. The Coop closed at 4 p.m. to allow employees time to get home...