Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy assassination-both Nenni and Moro feared that President Johnson might not be as sympathetic to the "opening to the left" -the negotiators then hammered out an 8,000-word program of cooperation that was just vague enough so that either party, or any faction, could interpret it as desired. On foreign policy, the Socialists balked at pledging "fidelity" to NATO but settled for "loyalty" to the Atlantic Alliance and agreement to continue discussions with the U.S. over Italian participation in MLF, the proposed fleet of Polaris-equipped surface ships. In return for accepting anti-Communist Social Democrat Guiseppe Saragat...
...vietnamese pledged to respect Cambodian borders, Schecter said, the Cambodians would interpret this as a sign of American good faith. Reports have linked Americans to many of the incidents around the Cambodian border...
...must also interpret Prince Sihanouk's speech in terms of Cambodian history," Schecter added. In the past, he said, the Vietnamese have been traditional enemies of the Cambodians: Sihanouk "doesn't want North Vietnam to dominate the Indo-Chinese peninsula." In fact, Schecter said, Cambodia's relations with China were always more comfortable than its contacts with its eastern neighbors...
...Movement." In the back of the church, four tight-trousered cats from the pool hall down the street looked a little incredulous. A carefully dressed young woman, a student from a nearby Negro college, turned a near chuckle into a slow, wry smile. But the revolutionaries did not interpret individual expressions, and only stood, a little in awe, before the great body of black faces for which they were now to become a head...
Historians, for their part, like to interpret fashion as a reflection of world events. Thus women's clothes in the Middle Ages blossomed with a new luxuriance of embroidered accessories under the influence of the loot brought back from the Crusades. The French Revolution temporarily reduced women from elaborate confections to simpler citizens. And the emancipation of women after World War I changed them almost overnight from being "all bosoms and bottoms," as Mrs. Patrick Campbell once wisecracked, to flat-chested, flat-hipped, shingle-headed imitations of little boys...