Word: depend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bureaucrats scan it for news of their own departments that may still be several memos away; except at the topmost layer, the city's 228,109 public servants depend mostly on the press for what they know about the Government and each other. Bigwigs examine the Post nervously to see how their speeches are played-or to find ideas for new ones. The Washington press corps studies it for tips, ideas and slants that often influence the 500,000 words that clack out of the capital every day to news media all around the world...
Moreover, as Mr. George Kennan has shown us in his book, The Realities of American Foreign Policy, a healthy understanding with other people abroad may indeed depend to a considerable degree upon our continuing energetic efforts to put our own house in even better order and to keep it that way. Hence, to promote a viable free world with freedom having the breadth of definition which it rightfully deserves, we must renew our efforts to make that definition a reality at home. A new consensus based on world recruits for this concept who in a different period clung...
...adequacy and timeliness of our response will largely depend, I believe, on the development of a new or revamped American leadership that rejects the cynical assumption, which sometimes seems to be held by many American political leaders as well as by the leaders of the USSR, that modern Americans can be interested only in larger paychecks, faster cars, and more garish entertainment...
Testifying last week at a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business, which (like Barnes) is chiefly interested in the plight of U.S. banana jobbers who depend on United Fruit for their supplies, the trustbuster reported that the company...
...French village in the Beaujolais country, where every bit of thick underbrush had a tale to tell. Clochemerle is The Wicked Village, but no one is expected to take the title seriously. To be sure, everyone drinks too much wine, but after all, they grow the stuff and depend on it for a livelihood. In the spring the boys and girls are apt to experiment a little too ardently or carelessly, so that a rather high proportion of firstborns are illegitimate. But marriage. more often than not sets things to rights...