Word: recent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...With all the recent harping on the "youth" of the candidates, perhaps the nation's employers will now cease considering "over 40" as synonymous with "senility...
...conference with Nixon (reportedly prearranged by a telephone call between Joe Kennedy and his old friend Herbert Hoover) was outwardly just a good-will trip, to heal the recent campaign wounds. After greeting each other warmly in front of Nixon's stucco villa, the two recent adversaries retreated behind the screening around the Vice President's sun porch and talked animatedly for more than an hour. They talked some about the problems of transition and foreign policy, discussed the subject of possible Republicans in the Kennedy Administration, and agreed to meet again in about two weeks (when Nixon...
...state of affairs on which, as the allies well knew, the health of their own booming economies depended. To help support the dollar and halt the flight of "hot" U.S. capital to Europe, Britain, France and West Germany have all lowered the bank (and hence interest) rates in recent weeks. Under U.S. prodding. Western Europe as a whole has relaxed its barriers to U.S. exports enough to ensure that the surplus of U.S. exports over imports this year will be three times that of 1959. And across the Pacific even Japan, a nation that lives on trade but illogically maintains...
Lately, the clique had pushed not only for a three-year postponement of elections but for passage of a law setting up an army-run bureau to control the press, education, religion and culture. At that, Gursel decided to move. "Recent commit tee discussions have taken the form rather of open war than of constructive exchanges," he explained later. "In a democracy, it is necessary to have the self-restraint to abide by a majority decision." With his control of top army commands, Gursel managed to get rid of the 14 relatively junior officers without resistance-though he prudently disconnected...
...statement of Master Conway that "virtually unandmous" satisfaction prevails among the inhabitants of the Leverett Towers prompts me to offer a few words on recent Harvard architecture, and on the expansion of the college. I connect these two subjects because it would seem that "Towerism" is to be a vehicle for expansion, even if the tenth House, and others which appear to be forthcoming, are not constructed precisely like the Towers...