Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is, furthermore, a military advantage in our allies possessing nuclear weapons under control of a committee of the member nations. In the event of small, local wars, where sheer numerical superiority works to the advantage of Communist aggressors, the smaller countries could defend themselves with tactical nuclear weapons, without embroiling the United States in the conflict. This would be a valuable alternative to America's "massive retaliation" against Soviet targets, as reprisal for brush-fire skirmishes, while the provision for central control would prevent a nation's using the weapons for purposes not approved by the Alliance...
Radical Socialist Gaillard, the author of France's recent too-little-and-too-late partial devaluation of the franc, set out to persuade the conservatives and Socialists, who keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...
...officials stoutly defend all such revisions. Unless the index is kept up to date, they say, the list would soon be heavily loaded with items nobody buys. But the real trouble is that such changes are interpreted as price increases instead of being identified for what they are: major upward shifts in living standards...
...Dollar Grin. Abroad, the U.S. penchant for size and splash brings on snide cracks that the American car is the symbol of American culture: a "dollar grin for all the world." But the real experts-Europe's stylists-are quick to defend the U.S. car. Italy's great Pinin Farina, who designed the beautiful Lancia Aurelia and Alfa Romeo, calls American cars the most comfortable in the world. For the U.S., with its enormous distances and comparatively cheap gasoline, the big. powerful U.S. cars are well designed. The driver who hopes to slip into 50-m.p.h. expressway traffic...
...raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European residents who built up Algeria, and their determination to defend their homes even by installing pillboxes. From Manhattan, Commentator Eric Sevareid rounded up the issues, viewed them in light of the cold war and their implications for the U.S. Neither taking sides nor offering easy solutions where none exist, Algeria Aflame brought a tragic stalemate into sharp focus...