Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the representatives from 125* nations who launched the General Assembly's 24th session, a similar mixture of muted hope and outright despair seemed to prevail. Few expected the 13-week session to produce much progress in settling the world's major conflicts in Viet Nam and the Middle East. Still, there was always the possibility that some crises could be eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives...
...standards of conduct to which it is held by its own students and faculty, has special obligation to behave in exemplary ways. . . . We are, and we are judged to be, an institution devoted to humanistic values and thus accountable to higher standards of conduct than those which prevail among most business firms...
...other bishops and cardinals celebrated an "all-African" Mass to mark the consecration of a dozen black bishops; he urged the new prelates to help create "that new civilization, African and Christian." Later, in an address to the Uganda National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense agriculture! possibilities. Local...
...British entry into the Common Market. The rest of the Six concur with Monnet's proposal for immediate preparations. But French President Georges Pompidou first wants to hold a summit of the Six, perhaps in October, before sitting down with Britain. The French view is likely to prevail...
...Thanks to Mr. Thomas Bradley's decision to run for mayor, the citizens of Los Angeles had the opportunity to see themselves in daylight. Not a very pretty sight to watch-fear and prejudice surface and prevail. Possibly even more frightening is the Los Angeles voter's lack of qualms about jeopardizing the future of his city by placing it in the hands of a ruthless opportunist...