Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, nearly four months after his deadline, talks continued in Washington on the Berlin issue; Dean Rusk seemed ready to offer Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin some of the semi-concessions that the U.S. had suggested before* but stood firm on all essentials. Khrushchev's boldest move in 1961 was to raise the Berlin Wall; today it seems less like a master stroke than a monument to the misery of 100 million souls imprisoned in East Europe...
...weeks, Hal and the 15 others in his Sensitivity Training Group have met for one uncomfortable, four-hour session each week at the University of California at Los Angeles. The sessions are deliberately unorganized: the participants sit facing one another in a circle, and nothing is said until the boldest of the group dares to break the silence by introducing himself and perhaps guardedly adding what he hopes to get from the course. Then begin the rambling conversations that wind up with each member of the group dishing out and receiving scathing personal criticism. Inevitably, a few members of U.C.L.A...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball gave staunch support to linear agreements in place of the nation's present maze of reciprocal trade agreements. GATT-wide adoption of the linear approach would mark the boldest move yet toward free trade in the free world...
...their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well as thoroughbreds to offer when and if Britain gets into the Common Market...
...United States, Hitler saw a threat to Europe. Reflecting on the loss of Europe's "boldest and best" racial elements through emigration, Hitler saw the U.S. as "a new folk community of racially highest value." In fact, opined Hitler, America was a racist state: "That the American union feels itself to be a Nordic Germanic state and by no means an international stew of peoples is evidenced by the manner of allotment of immigration quotas to Europeans-first Scandinavians, then English and finally Germans have the largest quotas...