Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the U.S. Senate at razor-edge balance between 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans, the success of the Democratic leadership may well depend on the ability of the assistant majority leader, or whip, to cajole Democratic Senators of all hues and persuasions (including the Southern) into following the party line. Last week, casting about for someone to replace Kentucky's defeated Earle Clements as whip, Senate Democrats thought they had found a topnotch prospect: Montana's shy, sharp-featured Senator Mike Mansfield, 53, the heavy favorite to become field commander in charge of carrying out the strategic planning...
...stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan-and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us. don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history is on our side. We will bury...
Right from the start of the U.N., peace continued to depend upon the restraint of the big powers and the accommodations they were able to reach amongst themselves. Then, three weeks ago, British and French aggression in Egypt suddenly made clear the dismaying fact that when the chips were down, not only Russia but "respectable" major powers as well were willing to take the law into their own hands, breaking their U.N. pledge to renounce force, when they conceived their vital national interests to be at stake...
...chance to live in Washington, where he feels the steamy summer climate will be no great bother because, as he hears it: "You go from one air-conditioned room to another." Said he on his arrival: "If the prospects of peace and justice are to be good, it will depend on the extent" to which the United States and Britain "harmonize" their policies...
...production at its Kirkuk field drastically; Syria sacrifices $50,000 daily in pipeline earnings alone; Saudi Arabia gets an estimated 85% of its income from oil (some $290 million in 1955). On the other hand, as one old Middle East hand grumbled last week, "You can never really depend on the Arabs' not hurting themselves. They're always biting off their nose to spite their face...