Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm-hampered maneuvers were inconclusive. But Eisenhower, in a shipboard press conference before flying back to his Paris headquarters, took a longer view. He spoke with an optimism that would have seemed merely wishful two years ago. What he sees ahead, now that the West is able to confront Russia with growing strength, is a military standoff, without war, in which the West ("unless a lot of us are pretty stupid") could sustain forces on a maintenance basis, without an endless series of $60 billion annual U.S. defense budgets. When military parity is reached, he said, the world would enter...
...endless, banal assault on ear and eye and mind. When his characters are caught with their sets off, they exhibit every nuance of the Walter Mitty syndrome: grandmothers speak to one another with the accents of private eyes; moppets dry-gulch their parents from behind the furniture; housewives confront "their startled husbands with all the teary grandeur of John's Other Wife...
...Questions. "The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined," said MacArthur. Then he proceeded to propound a series of questions which might be taken as the text for the Republican campaign against the Fair Deal...
Declared New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, representing both his church and the National and World Councils of Churches: "This pilgrimage enabled us to present a united religious front of the West to confront the united materialistic front of the East...
...Korea: 1) fight it to the hilt, or 2) get out altogether. If the U.S. pulled out (he wasn't too clear about what would happen to the South Koreans), he would plunge into full mobilization at home, break diplomatic relations with all Communist countries, and confront Russia with an ultimatum. "I think the time is coming," he said, "when we will just have to draw a line and say, 'No more-this...