Word: brinkmanship
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...mechanized and vigorous army, without which the 19-year-old nation might long since have been pushed into the sea. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol came under heavy pressure at home to unleash his mailed fist in retaliation for what is interpreted in Jerusalem as nothing less than Syrian brinkmanship...
Fulbright developed a bitter animosity toward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over Dulles' brinkmanship policies and his cancellation of funds for Egypt's Aswan dam. "He misleads public opinion," Fulbright said, "confuses it, feeds...
...NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POL ICY. Goldwater advocates a strong defense establishment, aligns himself with a foreign policy that matches the Eisenhower-Dulles view. "I think brinkmanship is a pretty good word." In his running figh-with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, he does not question the reliability of U.S. missiles once they are in flight; what he does say is that it is not yet known whether silo doors and other such ground mechanisms could withstand attack from an enemy's nuclear weapons...
...Brink's Inc., biggest U.S. money mover ($300 billion a year), who directed repayment of the $1,200,000 in cash lost to customers in the 1950 Boston robbery, then ordered the intensive security overhaul that has precluded any sequel to that heist and, true to the new Brinkmanship, kept three pistols hidden in his office to the day of his retirement; following a heart attack; in Chicago...
...years ago downgraded the idea that we could achieve peace through visits and talks and goodwill missions, and who is engaged almost around the clock with visits and talks and good will missions . . . We have peace only because General Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had the guts to proclaim brinkmanship...