Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hayes' claims that the Extension plan of Turnpike Authority Chairman William F. Callahan would benefit rather than injure Cambridge were termed "misinformed" by Mrs. Newman. According to Mrs. Newman the Extension proposal, which would involve filling in eight acres of the Charles River, would interfere with recreation, navigation and flood control...
...example, it makes no sense for another to duplicate it. Michigan is strong in Far Eastern languages; Illinois in Russian. Why should they try to match one another? By sharing the other schools' strong suits, each of the eleven will be able to strengthen its own for the benefit...
...fate of Europe. But the two men responded to this fact in different ways. As Churchill told de Gaulle: "It is better to persuade the stronger than to pit yourself against him. . . . The Americans have immense resources. . . . I am trying to enlighten them, without forgetting, of course, to benefit my country." This is the definition of the "special relationship," which Britain has pursued for twenty years. British policy assumes that by deferring where necessary to the United States (as at Nassau), Britain can obtain better treatment from her master. De Gaulle believes the opposite...
...Gaulle's or anyone else's. The Communists had found out the same thing in Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. There were differences: Russia had tried to impose a unity, and Western Europeans had hoped to evolve into a unity by democratic means and for mutual benefit. Western Europeans still insist that the idea of Europe will carry the day, but at the moment there is a new consciousness of one another's disparate tastes, talents and destinies...
...insistent on having his own sensibilities taken into account, Charles de Gaulle has a gargantuan capacity for being indifferent to everyone else's. Last week, having stood France's friends and neighbors on their ears, De Gaulle triumphantly surveyed the scene for the benefit of some 120 newly elected National Assembly Deputies in a reception at Elysée Palace...