Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Kennan thinks that a summit conference would be worthless (TIME, Dec. 2), he believes that Western nations should begin to negotiate, at an ambassadorial level, some sort of deal in which the Soviets would pull their military forces out of the satellites in return for the neutralization and reunification of Germany...
...proposition that further armament and continued tension will speedily become intolerable-for the West-and that compromise must be achieved no matter what the cost. Furthermore, in the view of some soft-line advocates, Russia is ahead politically and militarily anyhow, so it is time to make a deal...
Supposedly, people improve a great deal with the coming of the Christmas spirit. All this proves is that people are pretty poor news the rest of the time. And a walk down the block to the shopping area where people thresh about buying tokens of good cheer shows that they're not very wonderful during this time of year either...
...part to the whole, may naturally be of peculiarly fallacious and depreciative character. Briefly, are we not indifferent from superficial thought, and superficial from desultory attention, divided energy, want of definite purpose, and laziness. A laziness fostered, it is true, by a little dilettante culture, and a great deal of affected disapproval of everything which is now done or thought by ourselves or others. --From the CRIMSON of November...
PARIS, Dec. 16--President Eisenhower today offered America's European allies medium-range missiles and atomic warheads. The long, tense first closed session of the NATO summit conference then quickly split over how to deal with his proposition...