Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commons, Winston Churchill, with all his oratorical skill, and Anthony Eden, with all his practiced adroitness, tried to reassure Parliament that the U.S. is an impulsive friend but a necessary one. They complemented each other, this bold 77-year-old and his loyal lieutenant, who faithfully conceals his occasional dismay at some of Churchill's drums and tramplings. The best twelve years of Anthony Eden's political life have been lived in the shadow of Churchill, and not much grows in the shadow of such...
France fights a colonial war, that overt help to her should be avoided lest it dismay the Indians, the Burmese and the, Indonesians. The French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...
...Champion Lennart Bergelin, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4, in just 51 minutes. In the other singles, Tony Trabert, 21, had a longer (87 minutes) tussle before subduing Sven Davidsson, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. But Schroeder's dazzling form had Aussie experts shaking their heads in dismay: "Ted's going to give us trouble again...
Full Briefcase. While Hollywood's brass fidgeted with dismay, Wanger did nothing to set matters aright. From a jail cell, he coldly explained that he had long suspected Lang of having more than an agent's interest in his wife. In Manhattan last winter, he said, he had warned Lang: "I'll shoot anyone who tries to break up my home." Last week, with a briefcase full of private detective's reports, he decided the time had come to keep his promise...
...delegates ran into trouble. At least half of the 20 Latin American nations, angry because the U.S. had joined a move to give one of Latin America's four World Court judgeships to India, indicated they would vote for Byelorussia. So, to the dismay of the State Department, did Great Britain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden believes that East-West relations have become so frozen that a little pliability on small things might thaw Russia out. After all, said the British, Russia already has one veto on the Security Council, and one more small vote for the Russians could...