Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidency, Truman said, "and that is to keep everlastingly at them, and to give as much time to them as it is possible to squeeze out of every 24 hours." The former president attacked proposals to lighten the burdens of the post, stating that "if the President lets things drift, the country is in danger, for drifting is the easy road to disaster...
Foreign Policy. "We have done more than just talk about peace; we have worked for it. We have seen Communist aggression come to a complete halt. We have seen a halt in the world's drift toward nuclear war . . . We have seen dangers in their most awful forms lessen rather than grow . . . challenges met instead of evaded. We have seen, in great part as a result of our own conduct, the leaders of world Communism forced to renounce some of their old ways...
...Nile and Euphrates first advanced to Europe. Across this strategic roadway world conquerors from Babylon to Berchtesgaden have sped to their brief zenith and decay. In their day both Ramses II and Darius dug canals between the Nile and the Red Sea. As the North African sands still drift over the last burned-out tanks of Rommel, the newest Pharaoh of the Nile cries his claim for the road to the East...
...drift is in some measure caused by the currents of democracy released by Field Marshal Pibulsonggram, Thailand's strongman Premier, who was much impressed by democracy (and by presidential press conferences) on his trip to the U.S. and Europe last year. As a result of his temporary lifting of press controls, accounts of the corruption that normally flourishes in Asian regimes−opium trading, influence peddling−have been brought into the light of day by Pibul's enemies. The stories have tended to discredit, by association, the Pibulsonggram regime's longtime ally, the U.S. An American...
...succession of able ambassadors−Ed Stanton, William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and the late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...