Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeding tinned meat every day to some 75,000 people, or one in 25 of the city's population. Less fortunate Athenians subsisted on herbs and grasses. Disease, handmaiden of hunger, had not yet appeared, but ELAS and British doctors, under Red Cross protection, thought it best to confer on epidemic control...
What Has Tommy Got? On one occasion Assistant Littell waited for three days to confer with Mr. Biddle. Just after he finally got in to see him, the phone rang "and Mr. Biddle's remarks were about like this: 'Hello, Tommy. No-you don't need to come over here. You can come here or I'll come to your apartment, whichever suits your convenience.' It was clear that he preferred to have the Attorney General go there. My appointment was cut short and Mr. Biddle departed in about five minutes...
General Pat landed in China last September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...
...China's military situation was at its grimmest in five years, Stilwell came back to Chungking to see his chief, the Generalissimo. With him came another American soldier. Suave, worldly Major General Patrick Hurley, emissary of the White House in high diplomatic affairs, settled down in Chungking to confer with the Generalissimo and work out a new solution for the Asia Command. The conferences proceeded. Pat Hurley was hopeful...
...Army C-54 transport which had flown nonstop from the U.S. They were met by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and "Beedle" Smith, Eisenhower's crack chief of staff. Marshall and Eisenhower were solemn as they shook hands. They did not, of course, tell correspondents what they would confer about. One obvious guess: winter on the western front...