Word: achesonism
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...officers recognized that the continuing revolution in weapon design, coupled with the Soviets' fanatic penchant for secrecy, had put the U.S. at a dangerous disadvantage. The U.S. was starved for intelligence information. The most obvious solution was high-altitude air surveillance. President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson both agreed that such air reconnaissance was desirable-but they were unwilling to pursue such a project for fear of the results if a spy plane were shot down...
Harrison alone deserves the laurel. He makes a charming and surprisingly impressive Caesar-though some may doubt that the most prodigious public energy in human history can be portrayed as the Acheson of antiquity...
Leverett: Nicholas H. Acheson, Stuart D. Anderson, Andrew W. DeShong, 3rd, Stephen B. Farber, Jeffrey B. Gordon, Alan L. Kostinsky, John D. Leubsdorf, Zacchaeus O. Okurounmu, Michael A. Roberts, Joseph J. G. Scanio...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who visited with Griswold just yesterday, described his life as "a happy one, as the Greeks thought of happiness, for he exercised his powers to the full, achieving excellence in an environment affording him scope...
...activities to undergraduates, Master Finley devotes most of his time to individual members of the House and his recommendations have helped many of them to get into graduate schools and to obtain jobs. An urbane after-dinner speaker, Finley annually organizes a series of house dinners to which Dean Acheson, James Reston, and McGeorge Bundy have recently come as guests. To a large degree he has earned for the House the devotion felt for it by the past and present members...