Word: correspondant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle declared: "One usually ascribes to me one quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I am so unintelligent as to want to make a coup d'etat? . . . The era of the coup d'etat is past. It is an anachronism which does not at all correspond to my temperament." During the war, stubborn as he was with allies, he freely allowed himself to be overruled by Free France's Liberation Committee. And in the immediate postwar years, when France was in his hands and absolute power might have been his for the seizing, he accepted...
...There must be the initial phase in which chaos gives way to a rudimentary order." "Russian assistance -as the Chinese leaders make plain in every speech and report -is disinterested." "In |France| ... the law is determined by the interests of a class." but in China, "justice is made to correspond to the welfare of the people...
...merger will take effect immediately, with Mary Costanza '58 honorary president and Roselyn Leinwand '59 honorary secretary. These positions correspond to former offices in the Radcliffe organization. The PBH service committees have also been integrated, and will be directed by co-chairmen instead of separate committee heads...
...world from which the threat of war has been removed would correspond to the deepest desires of American society," the report sums up. "We like to believe that reasonable men can settle all disputes through good will and compromise, and that power should be invoked only as a last resort. We therefore tend to think of diplomacy and force as successive and separate phases of national policy. Unfortunately, the position in which we find ourselves does not permit such absolute distinctions. In a revolutionary period the ability and willingness to use force may in itself provide a factor of stability...
Happy in the United States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...