Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have been the cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status of the Suez Canal, Israel...
...operation and finances of state government. But he promised to run again for governor in 1958. Banking on that promise, a committee launched a "Win in 1958" fund, and campaign committees were formed two years ahead of time by citizens who agreed with Del Sesto's postdecision comment: "Democracy received another setback in Rhode Island today...
...fifty-year-old beefy-faced leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition was talking quietly in the sitting room of the Dana-Palmer House shortly after noon yesterday, when his wife called down from upstairs, "The Associated Press service would like a comment on some dispatch from London." Hugh Gaitskell disappeared momentarily, but soon returned to end the conversation easily and with-out strain. Then, beaming, he mounted the stairs again, three at a time with momentary secret that the don-turned-politician could soon attain yet another personal triumph...
JANUARY. Parietal hours will be reduced by the Administrative Board. They will explain, "These are hectic times." Chiang Kai-shek will accept the position of Recreation Director with the Chinese People's Republic. Tom Dewey will refuse to comment upon his future plans while his wife paints campaign buttons and he brings his golf game down to the eighties...
Local press comment has continued critical on the proposal to dismiss Jordan and pay his salary for the next two years (about $25,000). Columnists have charged that the move involved a surrender to alumni pressure and asserted that Harvard was still attempting to play "big-time football" while saying...