Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev should be told repeatedly why his past prevents us from accepting his words, without actions to back them and a means of our checking their compliance. We should always be polite and calm-if he wants to throw tantrums, let him-and go ahead calmly and politely...
...sniffles not quite defeated even after eight days at the La Quinta, Calif, desert home of his friend George Allen, the President of the U.S. clearly hated to leave. Invited back to California by Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, Dwight Eisenhower thought of the duties that face him for the rest of his term of office, said almost wistfully: "Maybe I will, after 15 months." But Ike had to get back to Washington. There was plenty...
...back from his vacation in southern California, President Eisenhower met the somber group of Cabinet members and aides who trooped into his White House office at 8 a.m. last week. Among them were Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting...
...Back as far as 1883, President Eliot had proposed to the Board of Overseers that the Harvard curriculum should be modified to let a student complete his college work in three years. For twenty-five consecutive years he put the proposal before the Board, and each time it was rejected...
While the Lions captain will be playing only for small periods at best, the Crimson "has not been in as good physical shape since the opening day of fall practice," Yovicsin said. Defensive back Jim Nelson, recovering from a bout with mononucleosis, is the only man not counted on to play...