Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power & Light. In the face of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's wild shouts for help from Peking and Moscow, Hammarskjold quietly took charge. He did not wait for any nation to ask for a meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister...
...bristling note rejecting as a "willful misinterpretation and misstatement of fact" Khrushchev's assertion that the U.S. plane had been shot down inside Soviet airspace. "At no time was the plane closer to Soviet land territory than about 30 miles," said the U.S. But Nikita Khrushchev did not wait for any facts. He called a press conference. Some 300 correspondents, photographers and TV and newsreel cameramen jammed the Kremlin's newly air-conditioned Sverdlov Hall for the show. But this time Khrushchev's spy-plane story did not stand...
...discus (176 ft. 10½ in.) and shotput (50 ft. 10¼ in.) and San Diego's Karen Oldham in the javelin (163 ft. 5½ in.) demonstrated fair U.S. strength in the field events. Said Temple: "We've got a chance. We'll have to wait...
...wait for sunrise, all conscripted From our passions by the tedium...
...persuasiveness, it looks forward to the moment, somewhere between 1960 and 1984, when Britain decides "to commit suicide" and becomes a Soviet satellite. Lest any reader think he is not reading about the possible, FitzGibbon provides a text from Lenin, who held that in war, it is best to wait "until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the mortal blow both possible and easy...