Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked one place that it is not going: through the United Nations. The President rejected Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's suggestion that a larger share of U.S. aid be channeled through the U.N. Explained Ike: theoretically the idea is sound, but practically the U.N. is much too muddied by international politics for the Lodge idea to work. Our efforts, he said, must be as of now largely on a "bilateral basis." In Paris Secretary Dulles was unwilling to channel aid through NATO lest the act be misconstrued as resurgent Western colonialism. By rejecting these two outlets, the Administration...
...that NATO cannot be a military garrison which could contain and repel any sustained large-scale Soviet land attack Westward. No European army raised by the NATO countries within the limits of their economic and military capabilities could long stand up to an all-out Soviet march to the Channel...
...aimed at giving unwelcome visitors, e.g., children under 14, a chance to be seen by and chat with patients from a distance. The gimmick: a special TV hookup that employs existing TV sets in rooms, a camera and transmitter in the visitors' room, and an unused local commercial channel...
...Home on the Channel. Author Hart ley is profoundly interested in what happens to ordinary people when they let themselves go and get entangled in extraordinary situations. Isabel Eastwood, the "perfect woman" of this novel, is an ordinary woman who dreamed in her younger days of dedicating her life to something rare and wonderful. But just when she was getting the hang of Kafka and the tang of Joyce, she married Harold, a chartered accountant who regarded life as a sort of income-tax return and his Creator as an Inspector of Internal Revenue. The Inspector, as Harold sees...
...Isabel have two children (the Inspector insists on this) and are toying with having a third when their income can stand it. Their home is a neat little villa in a neat little town beside the ocean - not the roaring, boisterous ocean, of course, but the tidy English Channel with its concrete esplanades...