Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloons & Boots. Before De Gaulle arrived, police and Communist militants were already fighting in the side streets. Unfazed, the general earnestly began to proclaim the virtues of the new constitution, which he declared is suited "to this century and to the people we are." His voice breaking with emotion, De Gaulle shouted: "With all my heart, in the name of France, I ask you to answer oui." But over De Gaulle's head as he spoke floated a cluster of red, white and blue balloons bearing the single word...
...prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed to give vital economic aid, on his own terms, to the Egyptian dictator whose propaganda spokesmen daily proclaim his contempt for the U.S. and all its works...
Returning from Moscow, Nasser deplaned in his Syrian sub-capital of Damascus and rushed to a balcony to proclaim the Iraqi victory...
...Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim it. He planned it that...
...Joseps-son is a Communist, and forced the twelve-mile limit through the country's coalition Cabinet against the objection of more NATO-minded ministers. The Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added to the arctic fishing protection squadron...