Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent...
...Change. Besides the inherent difficulties of the task, Anderson has to contend with a widespread failure, at home and abroad, to grasp how radically the world economic picture has changed over the years since World War II. Back in the late 1940s, the U.S. was the principal source of the world's manufactured goods, exported far more than it imported. Result: even with U.S. tourists spending millions abroad, U.S. troops stationed around the world, U.S. Marshall Plan dollars pouring into Western Europe to rebuild shattered economies, and Point Four aid flowing to underdeveloped countries...
...Greatest Challenge. In pushing toward broader aid and freer trade, Anderson is serving, as he sees it, not only the interests of the U.S. but the interests of all the free world. In his global view, his policies at home and his policies abroad are interdependent, just as the U.S. and the rest of the free world are interdependent. By fighting for sound money at home, he can encourage freer world trade by keeping the world's reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, dependably stable. By persuading Western Europe to assume a fair share of the foreign-aid burden...
Nine Dead Bodies. To Nehru, things seemed to be going better for a change. Abroad, Red China, after long months of border aggression and arrogant bluster, had finally sent him a note couched in terms of common civility. China's Premier Chou En-lai proposed that the armed forces of both nations withdraw 12½ miles from the positions they now hold, and urged an early meeting to discuss frontier problems. Such a move might be advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed...
...Mountains as 23 cars gunned and slid around the $500,000 Continental Divide Raceways near Denver. The competition on the twisty, 2.8-mile circuit was the first endurance race to see how well Detroit's new compact cars stack up against their competition both at home and from abroad...