Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State, listened much and talked little. After the often grating brusqueness of Herbert Hoover Jr., his predecessor as Under Secretary, Herter's unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen boosted departmental morale. But his occasional exasperated "goddams" packed a wallop. Gradually, State Department hands came to see that behind Herter's gentleness was a strong and tenacious mind. "I learned one thing," reported an Assistant Secretary after emerging from Herter's office. "You've got to know every last detail when you talk to this...
SHARP at 9 a.m., Jan. 22, 1953, John Foster Dulles showed up for work in his fifth-floor office at the State Department, a tall, austere-looking man, eyes wary, mouth turned down at the corners, shoulders hunched, necktie slightly off-center. He sat down behind a big desk across from a big grandfather clock, surveyed a couple of portraits that he had ordered hung-one of his sideburned grandfather John Watson Foster, U.S. Secretary of State 1892-93 (under President Benjamin Harrison), the other of his uncle Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State 1915-20 (Woodrow Wilson...
...Threw the whole weight and wealth of U.S. influence behind the big European surge toward private enterprise and middle-class prosperity that mocked the basic Communist doctrine of class struggle, worked continually to bring to Western Europe some form of political-economic unity...
...frank," which is the diplomatic way of saying that neither side changed its position. For all his courtesy, Debré emphasized that the French are not so keen as the British to make concessions to the Russians, and are determined to avoid any appearance of dealing with Khrushchev behind the back of the West German government...
Stalemate. Behind much of the barbarism lies the ever-increasing desperation of both sides. Almost a year after Charles de Gaulle's return to power, a political solution in Algeria seems as far away as ever. In an effort to break the rebel hold over Algeria's Moslems, the French army has resettled more than a million of them in centralized, heavily guarded villages-a practice that Paul Delouvrier, De Gaulle's Delegate General in Algeria, last week ordered discontinued because "it might cause deterioration of the economic and psychological climate." But the casualties continue; there were...