Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were nothing else but isolationism, said the President, and the nation was not going back to it. Added Dean Acheson: "To abandon our allies would gratify the Kremlin. To do so would be appeasement on a gigantic scale." The President and his State Department seemed to be taking their cue from a Harvard law professor who, having presented arguments against his own conclusions in a legal case, remarked: "These considerations give me pause, but having paused, I pass on." Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, a leader in the Republican Party's international wing, expressed an uneasiness about overcommitment...
...theoreticians in Belgrade. The government-inspired Review of International Affairs argued that Korea has become an arena where Russia and China are competing for dominance of all Asia. Stalin was ahead until his North Korean puppets collapsed, and that, according to Tito's pundits, was Mao's cue to leap "into the forefront...
...ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations with the Chinese, and do what it could to persuade its lagging and anxious allies...
...Chicago, warming up for his 44th year of tournament play, Billiard Champ Willie Hoppe chalked a cue and mused: "At 63 I know I'm not getting any better. All I can do is hold my own, but my own is still good enough...
...played host to the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago Stadium. To make sure that third-term plans did not fizzle for lack of help from him, he stationed Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. Garry in a basement room fitted with an electrical pipeline to the stadium loudspeakers; on cue, Garry (ever since known as "The Voice from the Sewer") gave out with a clamorous "We want Roosevelt!" chant that was taken up by Kellymen posted about the floor, swelled to a convention-stampeding roar...