Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controlling Indo-China are incompatible goals. A perilous drain of French resources has been the main result of prolonged warfare. Yet if the French withdraw their troops "because the natives have asked for independence and have not thrown their full effort into the war" they will deed the Communists a priceless chunk of real-estate, and endanger every free country in the Far East...
...aggrieved students wrote a musical about the world's fifth largest library entitled, "There Are No Books in Widener." The main character was a soprano librarian who made a fortune selling out the stacks to a shady book worm in Central Square. The librarian then covered up the foul deed, warbling to anxious students that their book was "overdue to an officer...
...neutrality, explains Brinton, "is not a noble feeling, nor one with a sound basis in history. The spiritual crisis of our age has its roots in Western Europe at least as deeply as in the United States. But the war was fought there . . . and the reaction is normal." In deed neutralism is a normal response, and it is here that Brinton's ebullient optimism goes flat; the United States cannot bank on European gratitude or support when its popularity rating is barely a polite handclap...
...Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry Truman seized the U.S. steel industry in 1952, Randall, although his company is only the eighth largest steel producer, was chosen as the industry's spokesman. "This evil deed," he said in a blistering radio-TV speech, "without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O...
...murderers, their parents, and Tom Jefferson himself. Author Warren takes the part of commentator and uninvited amateur psychiatrist. Stripped of its turgid pretenses, Brother to Dragons asks two questions: 1) why did Lilburn do it? 2) how could Thomas Jefferson reconcile his own noble ideals with so dark a deed done by men of his own blood...