Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
...Truman appointed him his special envoy with ambassador's rank, sent him to China with orders to try to bring a peace between China's Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would attend his efforts in the Orient...
...Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, rode city bus No. 107 to work as usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow, a decree went out for a 42% increase in the value of consumer goods output by 1961. Among the items to be stepped up: television sets, sewing machines, refrigerators, bicycles, electric irons-and lampshades "to match the best foreign samples...
...both shores of the Mediterranean, the menace of violence lay like a dark shadow over what might well prove the last, best hope for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian fighting. Once again, only the vast prestige of Charles de Gaulle could carry France through to a happy conclusion...