Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of the Air Forces, Socialite-Industrialist W. Stuart Symington, who left the presidency of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., became Surplus Property Administrator, then a top-notch Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the aggressive, Yale-trained son-in-law of New York's defense-conscious Representative James W. Wadsworth...
...that over here, in Great Britain, one has the feeling of being driven into a corner by a complex of American actions and insistencies which, in combination, are quite intolerable." Then it snapped: "Not many people in this country believe the Communist thesis that it is the deliberate and conscious aim of American policy to ruin Britain and everything that Britain stands for in the world. But the evidence can certainly be read that...
...leave and then will just have to put stamps on them and mail them when I'm on my holiday." That would give him more time to "really see Canada. ... I did this last year when I went to Quebec and it worked out just dandy." The tourist-conscious Board of Trade obliged...
...Forty-seven has witnessed the return and triumph of Gamalielese conservatism in American domestic politics. But thanks to a bipartisan foreign policy this swing to the right has not yet produced a noticeable withdrawal from the international arena. Isolationism and pacifism are still discredited, and the United States seems conscious of its responsibilities as a "super-power" even if sometimes confused in their execution...
Gromyko (rhymes with Topeka) was the man who, even more than Harry Truman, had made Americans veto-conscious. There had been ten Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than...