Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought the lion of British imperialism as a lion," said India's Prime Minister Nehru on his country's eleventh anniversary of independence, "but then came from behind a snake which bit us." The snake was a purely domestic product-internal disunity and, most of all, the constant threat of bankruptcy. Nehru has of late talked a great deal about retirement, and many of his countrymen, sensing a staleness of leadership, have begun to wonder whether he is the one to lead them through the difficulties that lie ahead. For a report on those difficulties and a thoroughgoing...
...refreshing approach to golf. She says she took it up because no one in her family played even though her parents owned a course in Marysville, and "I thought golf-course owners should have at least one golfer in the family." Off the course, she keeps up a constant line of chatter, whether her game is going well ("Gee, this is all a crazy dream. I can't believe it") or poorly ("Bogey, bogey, bogey. Inexcusable. What a bonehead...
...constant exchange of radio invective, the ceaseless calls to arms fell upon Arab nerves already raw from poverty, humiliation, despair. In Lebanon, occasional bombs still went off, and 1,700 glad-to-be-gone U.S. marines left their fly-ridden bivouac in the dusty hills above Beirut and marched down to the beach for evacuation. There were hints that another marine battalion would shortly be withdrawn from Lebanon to the "floating reserve" of the Sixth Fleet...
...Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects if the [Middle East] governments are going to live under a constant threat of indirect aggression, assassination and the like." Though he was pressed from half a dozen different directions, Dulles notably refused to recognize Russia's right to negotiate on any point save aggression in the Middle East...
...former colonies who are U.S. allies: "The Arabs desire to weld their countries together and limit both Western and Communist encroachments in the area." The Parliament of Arab Morocco, where the U.S. has air bases, "forcibly denounced" the intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan, had to appeal for caution. Turkish Foreign Minister...