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Word: tation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: How to Hold Elections Without Really Voting | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...instructors at the air-base and at several coffee plantations in the area - including one owned by a close friend of the President. As evidence, they cited reports from a carpenter who had worked on the airfield and a butcher who was supposedly supplying one coffee plan tation with 10,000 lbs. of meat a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Mystery Strip | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...There's no longer any question about it," groaned a staunchly pro-Nixon member of the Republican National Committee staff. "If we're to have any chance at all against Kennedy-Johnson in November, Rockefeller's got to be on the ticket." Again and again during his erratic flir tation with the Republican presidential nomination, Nelson Rockefeller insisted that he did not want to be a candidate for Vice President. On the first of his two trips to Chicago last week, he repeated that he would "positively, absolutely" not consider the vice-presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Bold Stroke | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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