Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad a sweep for a bill which the Justice Department had advertised as a right-to-vote bill. When New Mexico's liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson expressed doubts about Part III, Johnson encouraged Anderson to write down his doubts in a compromising amendment, encouraged him also to confer with Vermont's sturdy liberal Republican George Aiken...
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...
...cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...
Telephone Conference. Bell Telephone ,aboratories, Inc. has developed a new telephone system that permits five executives to confer at one time when a code number is dialed. The system, using no operators, can handle 90 different combinations, can also stack up to three incoming calls on a busy phone and ring through in order of placement, permits any one of the conferees to call someone outside and bring him into the conference...
Members of the Eliot Drama Group will confer with Dean Watson today to discuss the feasibility of reviving Richard II for a two-day run during Commencement Week...