Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Korea. Last May, through an artfully casual conversation with India's Nehru, Dulles warned the Chinese Communists that if the Korean truce talks broke down once again the U.S. would have to enlarge the war. Two months later the Communists signed the armistice. The terms left many Americans unhappy, but no one disputed the proposition that a diplomatic stalemate was preferable to a military stalemate. Dulles has been careful to keep up his relations with Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee in the face of bitter anti-Rhee sentiment among U.S. allies. Aware that the armistice terms...
Perhaps the ski posters, the ping pong rooms, or the large record collection contribute to the casual atmosphere, but the directors' jovial insistance that the students, themselves, plan all activities is responsible for the enthusiastic response. Twice weekly, there are lectures on topics ranging from economic stresses in Yugoslavia to racial segregation, Morris Mitchell's topic for this Sunday. The Tea Committee attracts the young ladies, proud that the Center's tea is reputed the best in the Northeast, and knowing too that males can be inveigled to help wash the dishes. S.O.M.E. Committee (Scouting, Outing, Meeting, and Eating) organizes...
...Winston Churchill returned to London after a rest cure devoted to reading Trollope, feeding tropical fish, dictating his memoirs, and holding conferences with his top Cabinet officers, the London press widely predicted that some important changes would be made in his government (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week, in the casual manner of British politics, the P.M. announced the reshuffling, but the big news was that it was only a small shuffle after...
Last week, however, chafed by a procession of headlines about Chinese Communist prisoner atrocities and obstructionist tactics, Maggie Smith's casual tone abruptly changed...
High Compression. The Rev. Robert C. Hartnett, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America, accused the Times of ballooning some casual anti-Joe McCarthy remarks he had made into headlines, at the expense of a "balanced report" of his considered views on how academic freedom and civil liberties are being affected by the congressional investigations...