Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles, who saw no reason to alter the Western disarmament proposals that 56 nations had endorsed in the U.N. and the Soviets had flatly rejected, argued that any new approach to the Russians should be made through the U.N. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, adopting as his own what was originally a British suggestion, urged that, instead, the Soviets be invited to discuss the matter with the Foreign Ministers of the four Western nations on the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee-Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada. In the end, it was the U.S. that gave ground. The compromise solution...
...Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force: "The very real ability of our long-range bomber force is understood by the Kremlin. The Russians' understanding of this primary military truth has caused them to postpone their aggressive plans until such time as they might be able to alter the balance of power in their favor...
...chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could alter his proclaimed moral standards to fit the freewheeling '20s and '30s, turned loose Gilbert and Garbo in some sizzling love scenes, and let Harlow's neckline find its natural level...
...evil often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally...
Though this was true and reasonable, it did not alter the overriding fact that among the world's uncommitted nations, the Russians had scored heavily. How long that advantage lasted depended on how quickly the West could rally its wits, energy and resourcefulness to produce an effective counter to that whizzing thing...