Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huai announced that there were 2,700,000 fewer men under arms than in 1949. As a sop to the self-respect of the hitherto terrorized Chinese intellectuals, the leaders decreed that a party member, while obliged to carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified law, a Western concept never adopted or imposed on the Chinese (as it was, for example...
Patients are getting worried about X rays. Following the National Academy of Sciences' Report to the Public on the biological effects of radiation (TIME, June 25), more and more people have begun to nag doctors and dentists about possible harmful effects. Many have flatly refused to submit to X-ray examination or treatment. Just how safe-or dangerous-are X rays...
Turning to Stevenson's proposal that the U.S. should stop testing hydrogen bombs if other nations would agree, Nixon said: "I respectfully submit that for us to have followed this advice would have been not only naive but dangerous to our national security. To have taken such action would have been like telling police officers that they should discard their weapons, provided the lawbreakers would throw away their machine guns...
...abortive Menzies mission to Cairo. Eden had softened. Now some of his fellow Tories demanded that he make good on his threats. On the other hand, the Labor Party, which represents roughly half the British population, was sharply opposed to the use of force against Egypt, pressed him to submit the case...
...table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies, a tough Tory of the Churchillian school, launched into an explanation of the Dulles plan: let Egypt own the canal company but submit its operation to international control. When he and the com mittee left 70 minutes later, reporters asked how he felt. "Don't I look happy?" he countered. "As you see, I'm using the President's car. A good sign...