Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results of that tour the State Department was expected to base some of its most critical decisions of 1950. If Diplomat Jessup, who had sometimes questioned State's wait-until-the-dust-settles policy, could provide the basis for a revitalized U.S. policy in Asia, his seat in the little paneled office in the State Department would be even harder to fill...
...only possible source of such help was the U.S. which, if it wanted to, could deny Formosa to the Communists at little risk to itself. By helping the Nationalists hold Formosa, the U.S. could help thwart further Communist expansion in Asia, at the same time acquire an important base in its Pacific security system. But as of last week, the U.S. did not seem interested...
...Second Baseman Ed Stanky. Leo Durocher seemed principally pleased to get Stanky, who had played for him in Brooklyn. Said the Lip: "Stanky'll drive the pitcher daffy. He'll drop his bat on the catcher's corns. He'll sit on you at second base, sneak a pull at your shirt, step on you, louse you up some way-anything to beat you." Stanky spoke Durocher's language...
McCloskey spoke at the army base in South Boston on "Personal Freedom and the Bill of Rights" as a part of a series of talks to Army men on citizenship. Other University professors are expected to participate in these programs later in the winter...
...British are known to favor recognition, chiefly and frankly because they want to safeguard their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the Chinese Communists, busy with staggering internal problems, are not likely soon to launch an expansionist policy in Asia; 2) Red Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung is likely to become an Asian Tito. Therefore, argue the advocates of recognition-many of them in the U.S. State Department, which is still trying...