Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek press conference he was the alert, sure-footed Eisenhower of old, as he sparred with the 207 correspondents on domestic questions. A reporter asked if he had become a Republican in 1951 with the same intentions as those of a woman who "marries a man to reform him." Ike grinned, said no. What he had "very definitely thought" was that, "after one party had been in Washington 20 years . . . that party was really incapable of straightening out" the abuses that were the products of its long tenure. In 1956, Ike predicted in a frankly partisan stance, the Republican platform...
While British and French troops moved to the alert in the tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the President and the Secretary of State proposed to confront Egypt's President Nasser with the pressures of moral law, then stood back to await the consequences...
Oddly enough, these were the first U.N. casualties since the 1949 truce. But the lot of the U.N.'s 60 unarmed policemen on the world's hottest frontier has never been a happy one. Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja...
...daily with Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who briefed him on the nationwide Operation Alert. When the warning blasts sounded on Friday morning, Ike met with an "expanded" National Security Council, but later stuck to his deskwork as 10,000 federal employees and officials scooted out of town to secret emergency headquarters...
...amounted to $538 million, have been accepted grudgingly. The posters everywhere greeting B. & K. with "India and Russia are brothers" were Nehru's doing. By this kind of "impartiality" Nehru has not only instilled in many Indians a deep suspicion of the .U.S., but has also failed to alert his people to the danger of Soviet imperialism. Simultaneously, he has aroused in much of the U.S. Congress and population an almost irresistible desire to cut off aid to India and leave her to her own devices. This is the more regrettable since many Americans have long felt a deep...