Although he knew that Eisenhower had secretly approved every one of the provocative U-2 missions, Herter told the senators that decision-making about the U-2 had "never come up to the president".
The best symbol of this expansiveness is Ibn Faḍlān, who left a provocative account of his mission in 921, on behalf of the Baghdad caliph, to the Volga Bulgars, among whom he met Swedes coming down the river to trade.
The provocation proved provocative.
It has been 21 years since Ms. Vernon started her provocative line of jewelry, its mission being to meld the pleasures of style and sex in a conscious, artful and upscale way.
The victims could not be less provocative, going about the simplest outdoor missions of daily life but meandering into the sights of the suburban sniper terrifying the Washington area.
The last time the Czech Republic was deployed to Iceland, according to state-owned Russian daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the mission was extended "because of provocative actions on the part of Russian aircraft in the vicinity of Iceland".
"It is vital that all sides show restraint and do nothing that could be considered provocative," said Gen. Gilles Janvier, deputy chief of the mission, in a statement.
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"Part of our mission here is to support artists investigating contemporary dance in provocative and substantial ways," said Carla Peterson, the group's artistic director.
Phillips had flown in on a damage-control mission; the Mets' manager, Bobby Valentine, had caused another controversy with provocative comments at a college speaking engagement.
