Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow-steady forward movement of the week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
...disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides put in a few words, which the Russians did not bother to object to, in favor of discussing a "thinning out" of troops along the Iron Curtain. This was designed to take some of the steam out of Labor's election-year drive for "disengagement" in Central Europe. Without reading it, the two chiefs of government rushed through the signing of the final communiqué. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd remonstrated, Khrushchev replied: "Time is money. We have officials...
...captured Mau Mau document vowed that those who tried "our leader" should be tied with sinews taken from their own ribs, and that "who assists the whites he must be castrated. We must take out his eyes and then hold him for seven days and then we will cut his head off and see if the whites can bring him back to life...
...almost eleven years of Israel's existence as a nation, white-thatched Premier David Ben-Gurion has never hesitated to take tough decisions, in spite of the consequences, which are often economic. The hard-pressed Israelis are still paying special heavy assessments for their militarily brilliant Sinai invasion of Egypt. Now faced with the problem of absorbing 100,000 new immigrants (mostly from Communist Rumania), the government last week slapped new taxes, up to 70%, on consumer goods, ranging from aspirin to refrigerators. It abolished rationing, price controls and subsidies on essential foodstuffs and proclaimed a "compulsory loan," which...
...realized that the word 'waykwoom,' many times repeated, and the key to the whole lecture, was meant to represent the English word 'vacuum.' ") But gradually, Tillich learned to communicate with America's would-be believers. Gradually, Tillich's massive theological system began to take shape...