Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
...their quiet, back-room study of the secrets of heredity, U.S. geneticists are developing many a technique as explosive as any nuclear physicist's dream. Last week, at somber meetings in separate cities, two geneticists brought current accomplishments and prospects into the open...
...Back to the Army, again. Out o' the cold an' the rain...
...honest broker so well that at week's end the first representatives of Her Majesty's government to appear in Egypt since 1957 descended on Cairo. In the final moments of bargaining, the British did not get quite all they hoped for. Knowing how much his own back-bench Tories hate Nasser, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had pressed hard to get Nasser first to release two Britons jailed as spies at the time of the Suez affair. In the end, Macmillan decided that he could not hold out for a side matter...
Agreement was reached on the key financial points: 1) Britain would unfreeze Nasser's $210 million sterling balances; 2) Egypt would turn back $87 million of them to pay for British properties seized at the time of the Suez landings; 3) Cairo would abandon its bill against Britain for Suez war damage, and the British would waive their claims for equipment seized by the Egyptians from the once great British base at Suez...