Word: chessboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apple Cart still had vital things to say and on occasion a great gift for saying them. There was still the fun of watching a superb showman up to his old tricks-but some of them did seem decidedly old. There was still some satisfaction in watching him chessboard his old ideas-and seem at first blush to contrive new gambits...
...broad chessboard of international diplomacy, the U.S. moved decisively last week in a gambit that took the breath of professionals for its daring and won the assent of kibitzers for its instinctive rightness. With an open show of sternness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advised Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the U.S. is no longer interested in building the $1.3 billion Aswan High...
Although Dulles realizes that changing Russian policy calls for contrapuntal shifts in U.S. economic and political policy, he disagreed fundamentally with such top-flight Democrats as Adlai Stevenson and Averell Harriman, who say that Russia is winning diplomacy's chessboard battles and that the U.S. is losing. By his reckoning the Soviets have unleashed ferment and uncertainty within their sphere that are potentially fatal not to the U.S. but to Russia's own world position...
Abraham Lincoln and a judge friend were bent over a chessboard when the little boy first announced that dinner was ready. Lincoln promised to come home but went on with the game. A second, more urgent call went totally unheeded. Furious, the boy marched forward and with one good kick sent board and chessmen spinning into the air. Calmly, Lincoln took the boy's hand, and turning at the door with a good-natured smile, said: "Well, Judge, I reckon we'll have to finish this game some other time." Said the judge later: "If that little rascal...
...will remind a foreign scholar of his homeland--a sort of "home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...