Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often undocumented charges against people and programs he did not like (it was Jenner who called General of the Army George Marshall a "front man for traitors"). In 1952 he was re-elected in the Eisenhower landslide, but neither the man with the coattails nor the man with the cling liked it very much. Since then Jenner has been utterly unable to adopt the stance of a responsible, constructive member of the party in power...
...this week, representatives of 26 of the 35 nations adhering to GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) were in the midst of their fourth attempt since the end of World War II to arrange, mutual tariff reductions. Despite lip service to freer trade, most of the GATT nations cling to their barriers. Undiscouraged, President Eisenhower last week forwarded to congressional leaders a memorandum declaring that it was "absolutely essential" that the U.S. join the Organization for Trade Cooperation. (The OTC, if it ever becomes a reality, will act as a permanent administrative body to enforce agreements...
...India's own Communists, against whom he has warred for his eight years as Prime Minister while exchanging warm visits and friendly sentiments with their Communist masters abroad. "What the world needs in the atomic age," said Nehru, "is something revolutionary and dynamic, yet the Indian Communists . . . cling to doctrines which have no relations to facts today...
...theory of the unasked question is a myth that many German politicians desperately cling to. At Geneva the West had forced Molotov to admit plainly again and again, that whether or not West Germany is in NATO, Russia would never consent to free elections, which would allow West Germany to "swallow up" Communist East Germany. Already Molotov's admission had forced a new line in East Germany itself: free elections is a dirty term; after all, free elections had not prevented the emergence of Hitler. Wrote the party organ Neues Deutschland: "The lessons taught the German people...
...Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...