Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...
...convention of the tragic ending, and Author Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose-jointed, simple style to match, Author Gipson can probably depend on a substantial crowd of dog lovers eager to follow Old Yeller all the way to his bier...
...even for a Soviet diplomat, success is apt to depend less on personal skill than on the international appeal of the policies he is obliged to follow. Right from the start of his Middle Eastern tour, Shepilov ran into one setback after another. In Cairo, Shepilov's indication that Russia was prepared to underwrite the entire cost of the High Dam at Aswan was received with polite evasiveness by his old friend Lieut. Colonel Nasser, who, up until now at least, has indicated a clear preference for having the U.S., Britain and the World Bank finance...
...yourself [he told Rosenblum] will not need to invent anything. The NKVD will prepare for you a ready outline for every branch of the center; you will have to study it carefully and to remember all questions and answers which the court might ask . . . Your future will depend on how the trial goes and on its results. If you begin to lie and testify falsely, blame yourself. If you manage to endure it, you will save your head, and we will feed and clothe you at the government's cost until your death...
...position in Cyprus clear and flat. Without bothering to clothe it in the familiar language of imperialistic idealism, Sir Anthony defined Britain's stake in one word: oil. "Our country's industrial life and that of Western Europe," he told a Tory Party audience in Norwich, "depend today, and must depend for many years, on oil supplies from the Middle East. If ever our oil resources were imperiled, we should be compelled to defend them. The facilities we need in Cyprus are part of that defense. "No Cyprus-no certain facilities to protect our supply...