Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technique also brought out, at almost every stop, some old, familiar phrases in what reporters came to call "The speech." The correspondents coined their own titles for the standard phrases, e.g., "the old shoe" for his statement that the U.S. "has prosperity and peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just...
...Communist elements. The Soviet leaders might later attempt to hedge on this concession, but the fact was that they had made it in front of the whole world. This was the first time in their history that the Soviet leaders had done this, and the implications of their act went far beyond Hungary. That was why the events in Hungary on this foggy October day were of such vital concern to the world...
...persecuted by Stalin for Titoism. In Poland there was Gomulka, not long out of a jail term for putting his country before his Communism, but courageous, tough and dedicated. In Hungary, the hangman had long since disposed of Rajk, but there was Erno Gero, who might bring off the act. If the crowds got too insistent, they could always bring back tractable Imre Nagy as front man, and for the tougher business of running the party, Janes Kadar...
Clearly, then, the United Nations must act today if the Hungarian nation is to survive, and if the U.N. itself is to be an effective instrument of world peace. An indecisive stand by the free powers or time-consuming debate in the Security Council would represent a major loss to the democracies of the world, as well as a denial of the principles for which they stand...
...Russia has shown itself sensitive to world opinion, especially in recent months when her weaknesses have become apparent, censure by the General Assembly would at least make Russia hesitate before an all-out act of aggression. Moreover, if the troops of India, Burma, and Sweden were in Hungary, it is doubtful that Russia would come to blows with the nations whose moral and political support determine the world's balance of power...