Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and somber Cabinet meetings last week, De Gaulle and his Cabinet wrestled with these awkward realities. At last, hot on the heels of the London announcement, Antoine Pinay proclaimed France's course. Presumably buoyed up by promises of financial underwriting from West Germany, France followed Britain's lead, made the franc, too, externally convertible. At the same time the De Gaulle government devalued the franc by an unexpected 17.5%, established a new rate of 493.7 to the dollar...
...Awkward as all this was, State Visitor Ulbricht and his hosts did their dogged best to ignore the fact that even 13 years of joint servitude to Moscow has not wiped out the ancient hostility between Poles and Germans. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, bundled up against Warsaw's icy wind, greeted Ulbricht with the promise that "we will do all in our power to strengthen the international position of the German Democratic Republic.'' In return, Walter Ulbricht declared that he brought with him "the indestructible friendship of the German people...
This plan, Administration sources indicated yesterday, would combine some aspects of the uniform rent plan with some of the present system. Extensive changes in the rent adjustment program are likely, since all in the University are apparently unhappy with this awkward measure...
...likely that the compromise will reduce the present number of rent scales from their present total of 27 to a much smaller number, and arrange a less awkward rent adjustment program that will permit students in different income brackets to room together without embarrassment for anyone. Authority for this financial aid may be kept with the masters, or it may be shifted to the Financial Aid Office...
...there were signs that the Soviet objective was something far more concrete than mere psychological warfare. In the past four weeks Khrushchev has effectively reminded everyone that at no cost to himself he could make it extremely awkward and expensive for the West to stay in Berlin. Last week from Central Europe came reports that, after threatening the whip, the Russians were about to hold out a carrot. Reported terms...