Word: achesonism
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...prime supplier of raw materials faced a Soviet-backed revolution? His real mistake so far has been to say too clearly what he would not do, such as not keeping troops in Central America and not committing them to protect the Persian Gulf. Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, one of the original cold warriors, learned this lesson when he put South Korea outside the U.S. defense perimeter in January 1950. Six months later, North Korea attacked, and the U.S. was forced to step...
Grants from the Ford Foundation swelled House coffers in the '50s, with each House Committee determining how the money should be used. Dunster House set up a summer's travel in Europe for promising juniors, Eliot sponsored speakers' tables which invited the likes of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Adams spawned such esoteric organizations as the Wine Tasters' Society, the Cheese Tasters' Society, the Billiards Society, and the Play Readers' Society...
...embassy in Washington, where he had access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew everything!" exploded then Secretary of State Dean Acheson. A third Cambridge traitor, Harold ("Kim") Philby, remained under cover until 1963, when he too fled to the Soviet Union, the same year that Burgess died. In Moscow, Maclean had an innocuous job with a foreign policy think tank and, always a heavy drinker, died alone in his luxurious apartment...
...Darren Acheson scored what proved to be the game-winner less than two minutes later, capitalizing after Harvard goalie Grant Blair was pulled way out of not on the previous save. And for the rest of the period, the other two Elis instrumental in Harvard's demine, linemates Bob Brooke and Mark Crerar, proceeded to rip apart the Crimson defense...
From 1949 to 1962 MacLeish was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, where we see him inviting the likes of Acheson, James Reston, Frankfurter, and Oppenheimer to come chat with the students in Eliot House, where he served as master. During these years he wrote J. B., the work for which he is best remembered, a verse play based on the story of Job. And in one concurrent letter he states the problem J. B. addresses, an ancient human quandary made even more pressing by the painful events of the twentieth century--"the problem of making sense, making...