Word: brinkmanship
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...quote Columnist Alsop: "After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action . . ." Brinkmanship, maybe...
...first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...
...supposed to go Republican as soon as they can afford power lawn mowers. This obviously is not the case in Connecticut." On the whole, though, the incessant business of reporting figures-a chore at which NBC was consistently if narrowly ahead of CBS-left Brinkley little room for humorous Brinkmanship...
...Unmailed Letter. Eden begins by coldly surveying Dulles' self-avowed 1954 "brinkmanship" during the last days of the Indo-China war. Dulles first raised the possibility of U.S. military intervention soon after the siege of Dienbienphu began. He was pessimistic about the French, says Eden, and saw them "inevitably ceasing to be a great power." The U.S. was considering sending air and naval units to help the French, provided that 1) France promised to give the Indo-Chinese states their independence, and 2) Britain and other U.S. allies would support the U.S. The British answer, says Eden...
Perhaps the State Department was too much "under the Secretary's hat," perhaps we will not mourn the absence of "brinkmanship" and "massive retaliation." Nonetheless, Mr. Dulles' forceful leadership and unyielding moral strength are an inheritance future statesmen can be proud...