When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

*" The One Who Waits " ( The Arkham Sampler, summer 1949, reprinted in The Machineries of Joy )

Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall.

His role in internal debates during the summer of 1949 over whether or not to devalue sterling, in which he was perceived to have played both sides of the issue, tarnished his reputation in both political and official circles.

He started in the summer of 1949 after finishing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but came to a halt after producing 26 pages of manuscript and did not resume work until two years later.

She made several screen tests, learned the script, and arrived in Rome in the summer of 1949 to shoot the picture.

She was in Newcastle upon Tyne in the summer of 1949, accompanied by her friend Anne Dooley ( née Kelly ), a local woman, who was the model for Nellie Cotter, the extraordinary heroine of the book.

During the summer of 1949 the state department, headed by Acheson, produced a study of recent Sino-American relations.

A dam was built in 1949 to guarantee water supply during the summer months.

Thiokol Corporation moved operations to Redstone Arsenal from Maryland in the summer of 1949 to research and develop rocket propellants, while Rohm and Haas began work on rockets and jet propulsion.

In the summer of 1949, the county renovated by painting the inside of the building ; adding new desks, new furniture in the library, a new foundation, and a new roof ; and updating the electrical system.

During 1949 and 1950, the state of Washington used the center for summer training of its National Guard units and regular Army troops were permanently assigned to the center.

During the summers of 1949 and 1950 he taught in the new music summer school classes at Darmstadt.

In 1949, Monteux invited Arthur Fiedler to lead summer " pops " concerts in the Civic Auditorium.

The film, which was set in China, showed the victory of Mao Zedong's armies in the Chinese civil war, which ended with his ascension to power in 1949, but was actually filmed in England during the summer of 1961, using sets from the 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which had the same setting.

The affair lasted from summer 1948 until his death in autumn 1949.

He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the Third Sculpture International Exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

Following the settling of the legal issues, her chart successes continued with the charting of " Black Coffee " in the summer of 1949.

In the summer of 1949, Vaughan made her first appearance with a symphony orchestra in a benefit for the Philadelphia Orchestra entitled " 100 Men and a Girl.

Wakatsuki died of Angina pectoris at his summer home in Itō, Shizuoka on November 20, 1949.

During the summer of 1949, Stevens was a research assistant in the office of the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, now the Central District of California.

Avnery was wounded twice, the second time, toward the end of the war, seriously ; he spent the last months of his army service convalescing and was discharged in the summer of 1949.

A month spent working very intensively with Gurdjieff's group in the summer of 1949 laid the foundation for a significant transformation in his life and spiritual work.

" The Sheltering Sky — the title came from a song, " Down Among the Sheltering Palms ", which Bowles had heard every summer as a child — was first published by John Lehmann in England in September 1949 after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.

Kamenev and, indirectly, Zinoviev, were courted by Bukharin, then at the beginning of his short and ill-fated struggle with Stalin, in the summer of 1928, something that was soon reported to Joseph Stalin and used against Bukharin as proof of his factionalism.

Bukharin, then at the beginning of his short and ill-fated struggle with Stalin, courted Kamenev and, indirectly, Zinoviev during the summer of 1928.

In the summer of 1980 the Cats found themselves being courted by the elite of the music world including Virgin Records, Stiff Records and Arista Records.

Each daughter is courted by an impassioned suitor visiting Jutland – Martine by a charming young Swedish cavalry officer, Lorens Löwenhielm, sent to stay with his aunt in Jutland for the summer to correct bad behavior.

Despite a summer of controversy and protest from the du Pont family, Manual's first two graduating classes and the four major local newspapers, the board replaced him with Harry Brownell on July 2.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

Once, they were at Easthampton for the summer ( again, Fritzie said, a good place, even though they were being robbed ).

On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

`` Yes '', she said, `` I remember that they came here every summer.

Where Americans used to think of a single vacation each summer, they now think about how many vacations they can have.

But they are still enclosed in their larval cells and remain there throughout the summer, fall, and winter.

With naked gas jets below and leaky windows above, enough to ruin wall paintings in any medium, they have survived, in a building long unheated in winter, hot and damp under the iron dome in summer.

The sluggers get along so well in fact, that with their families at home for the summer ( Mantle's in Dallas, Maris's in Kansas City ), they are rooming together.

The panels will stay up until they are replaced next summer.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

This means that during the summer season, the younger members of the family, teenage boys and girls, would take the cattle to graze on the hillside and they would stay in the houses of the Deserted Village.

During the summer they require plenty of water and are very effective on the margins of lakes or by running streams, where they thrive.

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

During the summer months ( April – September ), dogs are banned from the Silver Sands but they are allowed all year round at the Black Sands.

Traveling east and north they eventually crossed the equator and reached the latitude at which Arcturus would appear directly overhead in the summer night sky.

On bare ground or roads during the winter, various species of snakes and lizards bask in the sun, but they are rarely seen during the summer months.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.