Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East. It would, on the other hand, I think, show the danger of indirect aggression, which has been so often condemned by the U.N. Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects if the [Middle East] governments are going to live under a constant threat of indirect aggression, assassination and the like." Though he was pressed from half a dozen different directions, Dulles notably refused to recognize Russia...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka did when he came to power after the anti-Soviet uprisings of 1956 was to release Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski from detention and give to Poland, which is 95% Catholic, a degree of religious freedom unknown in any other Communist nation. That was a concession won, not a benefit conferred, and ever since, uneasy has been the truce between church and Communist state...
...East quarantined and the sovereignty of each and every one of the states guaranteed by the great powers." His practical preference for economic solutions rather than political revolutions came clearest in his proposal that "the oil resources of the area be brought under international control and used for the benefit of the local people...
Onstage, to ripples of applause, staggered a game, gimpy theatrical trio-Sir Laurence Olivier, his wife Vivien Leigh, Cinemactor John Mills-for a painful song-and-dance. The show, at a benefit for an English orphanage, barely-creaked through. During a zesty rehearsal the day before 1) Sir Laurence strained a tendon, 2) Vivien, leaping into Mills's brawny arms, slipped and twisted a knee, 3) Mills cropped up with a case of sore ribs...
Offense & Defense. The major international oil companies did not recover. No one really expected them to. Royal Dutch dropped from 45⅞ to 42; Texas Co. from 71⅝ to 68; Gulf from 118 to 109⅛. Domestic oils, which could benefit from greatly increased production at home in another situation like Suez (see below), staged a smart rally. Atlantic Refining rose from 38 to 40¾; Shell from 76 to 80⅝; Amerada from 104 to 109¼. Like the home-grown oils, many other industries slowed by the recession picked up market strength as investors gambled...