Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoking, does not drink liquor, coffee or tea, often stops to pray before a big debate on the Senate floor. As president of the Sharon (Utah) Stake of the Mormon Church from 1929 to 1946, he took a lead in sponsoring a number of cooperative ventures, e.g., group medical care plans, a phase of his career that later caused consternation among some of his Republican friends...
...Britain, according to the latest Gallup Poll, the Attlee tour was popular. In favor: 43%; against: 20%; don't know or don't care: 37%. Conservative voters disapproved of the tour, but only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage...
...foreign policies of the Government ... In matters which do not require the personal attention of the Secretary of State, he acts for the Secretary of State, and in the absence of the Secretary of State, he becomes the acting Secretary of State." If the Secretary does not happen to care for administrative work, as John Foster Dulles does not, the Under Secretary becomes virtually the administrative head of the far-flung department...
...people, believing that the Japanese had come to liberate them, crowded out to greet the soldiers. "When the Japanese bombers came," said U Nu, "the people would not take cover. They tore their shirts, sang, danced, clapped their hands, shouted and turned somersaults as if they did not care a curse what happened." One day U Nu came upon a procession, led by monks, bearing gifts of rice, bananas and melons to the Japanese soldiers. Several hours later, U Nu met the same procession, limping home and disillusioned. "We expected the Japanese commander to be thankful," one of the marchers...
...Cobb's conclusion: "The present numbers are far below a desirable level . . . [But] the ghetto plan for provision of medical care for the Negro has been destroyed forever...