Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THIS meeting is far more important than just a question of whether a boat or two gets through the canal or does not get through, or even whether the canal breaks down. Upon what we do, in my opinion, will very largely depend the question of whether or not in fact we are going to build a peaceful world...
Then, his eyes glinting as he headed into the fight, Harry Truman spoke the magic words: "I believe that the man best qualified to be the next President of the U.S. is Governor Harriman of New York ... I know him, and you can depend...
...Commitments." As such, said Dulles, Nasser's exploitation of the canal was "inadmissible." To let the seizure "go unchallenged would be to encourage a breakdown of the international fabric upon which the security and the well-being of all peoples depend. And the question, Mr. President, as we've agreed, is not whether something should be done about this Egyptian act-but what should be done about...
...weathermen, radar has been the biggest boon their science has known since the barometer. Without radar, weather forecasters had to depend on reports from observation stations, which are always too few, and often slow to arrive. With radar, they can actually watch the approach of storm clouds. Many a weather or storm disaster might have been averted or minimized if proper radars had been on the job to flash a timely warning...
...finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain depend on you ... I know well's anybody, we got fight back now and then [but] everybody got find their own freedom. Everybody got lead their own selves outen the wilderness . . . Me-I'm goin home and get me some sleep...