Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crudest letters a President of the U.S. has ever received. Russia's Dictator Nikita Khrushchev flatly accused President Eisenhower of delaying a summit parley because Eisenhower did not want "a peaceful settlement" in the Middle East, was in fact preparing "fresh acts of aggression ... to confront the world with an ever-increasing extension of the military conflict...
...anyone can tell, the time has not yet come when most Frenchmen are prepared to throw France's democracy overboard and give a free hand to De Gaulle or anyone else. But neither has the time come when they are prepared to confront the implications of the fear confessed two weeks ago by Socialist Robert Lacoste, outgoing French proconsul in Algeria. Said Lacoste to a French newsman: "Why is all the world against France? You believe it is because we are not in the current of history? Yes, you believe it. I also...
...problem is one of stamina. President Eisenhower's close associates say that he begins each day full of energy, tackling the hundreds of national problems that confront him with enthusiasm and efficiency. But after the first two or three hours of a long conference, he becomes visibly weary; at the end of a day his performance is admittedly below par. His staff realizes this and works mightily to pick up the load. The President realizes it, too, and has made allowances such as the deliberate cutback in his work load...
Plans are already under way for such a center in Manhattan, to be run by the New York Board of Rabbis. The center, says Gordis, will "make available to all who knock at its door the guidance of the Jewish tradition in solving whatever problems confront them." Eventually, Gordis believes, Jewry may again take up "the challenge of the prophetic injunction" to be " 'a light to the nations...
...leaders of the Atlantic world had met to confront together the gravest challenge their alliance had ever faced. They conferred, decided, and departed to their several countries with no great acclaim...