Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BECAUSE Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has refused to negotiate away U.S. strengths for Communist promises, he has been derided by the idealists as "negative" and "inflexible,'' taxed for such hard-hitting phrases as "massive retaliation and "brink of war." Last week, in a notable speech to the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan, Dulles made it clear that he is trying to steer U.S. policy toward the most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change...
...farmer's ego. Massey-Ferguson did not have far to look for the real prototype of the man it described: Massey President Albert A. Thornbrough, 46. When Kansas-born Al Thornbrough became the firm's executive vice president three years ago, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. This week, by virtue of his aggressive policies, the company proved a remarkable comeback from 1957's losses of $4,700,000; it announced 1958 earnings that topped $13 million, or $1.25 a share. While sales in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America-even in Canada-were down slightly...
...opponents' raise, especially if each side knows the other's hand. If the Soviets can marshal a substantial missile margin they can force peripheral issues and fragment our alliances by bullying smaller nations into neutrality. In short, our missile supply may be sufficient to discourage Russian attack once the brink of war is reached; but when the Soviets possess missile superiority they may be able to force our allies to yield before the critical point is reached...
...dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than there, now rather than then...
Speaking to a small crowd in New Lecture Hall, Lattimore argued that the issues in the dispute between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists on the mainland over possession of Formosa are brought up only during times of "crises." Because of this "brink-tottering statesmanship," he said, we are "kept on the run from crisis to crisis. There are no indications," he added, "of a thorough overhaul of long range policy toward the Far East...