Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This chance may come, however, a year from now when the new constitution, if then in effect, will again be presented to the student body, to ascertain whether it "shall remain in effect...
...simply temporary. Yet an increasingly tense ratio of tutors to tutees in the past few years suggests that this year's shortage may be a continuing problem. As such, it is important that the Government Department, and other departments faced with the same situation, take pains to ascertain precisely why they cannot muster the tutors they need...
...State Department informed the Russian Embassy of Asseyev's request on Dec. 31, two days after it had been received. McCloskey said the delay was "normal," as the Department always makes an effort to "ascertain that such requests are genuine...
...cannon on the lawn of government house. "What a dull place," said a United Nations official. "I don't know how we're going to survive three weeks here." At the insistence of Indonesia's President Sukarno, an eight-member U.N. team is present to "ascertain" whether Sarawak and North Borneo really want to join the Federation of Malaysia, which Sukarno bitterly opposes. As the U.N. ascertainers began to sample opinions around Sarawak, they were nearly stoned, not bored, to death...
...Philippines and Indonesia, to be known, by syllabic fusion, as Maphilindo. But then came the blow from Sukarno, who has long opposed Malaysia, has only lately and reluctantly accepted the idea. Sukarno insisted on a full-scale referendum in Sarawak and North Borneo before Malaysia comes into existence, to "ascertain" whether these territories really want the federation. They plainly do, but Sukarno just wanted to throw his weight around. He was supported, halfheartedly, by Macapagal, since the Philippines has a shadowy legal claim to certain parts of North Borneo and a referendum would offer a face-saving way of abandoning...