Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert F. Wagner voluntarily gave up New York's mayoralty in 1965, a spent man. When he said that "twelve years are enough," no one argued with him. He was succeeded by the bright, energetic figure of John Lindsay, a Republican who promised to turn Democratic New York upside down...
Hussein in turn told Nixon that unless a settlement can be quickly achieved, his regime will be in real danger of losing whatever remains of its control over the fedayeen within its boundaries. Nixon responded by pointing out his belief that the complexities of the issues are so great that a rapid settlement seems unlikely. Despite his urgent requests for more military aid, Hussein won no new promises of major arms assistance. That is not likely to improve the King's already shaky hold on the affections of his army and his subjects...
...second point concerns the French Senate, whose members have often been De Gaulle's most persistent opponents. If the general has his way, the Senate would be troublesome no more; he would strip the French upper house of its already limited legislative and investigative functions and turn it into a consultative council that would have no power at all. Finally, De Gaulle wants to change the order of succession so that the president of the Senate no longer would become interim head of state in the event of the death or disability of the elected President. That function would...
...intend to continue to talk with students as much as I can whenever I am in Cambridge, despite the obvious risk that one of them will turn out to be a reporter more interested in proving his point than in reflecting accurately what...
...important about this, I think, is not so much the specific terminus ad quem cited, but the relationship in the community's mind between that, which, incidentally, is a demand to ignore the Faculty's vote to retain ROTC but on essentially an extracurricular basis, or at least, to turn it around, to remove curricular credit and let ROTC remain on whatever term could then be worked...