Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire State Department personnel in John Quincy Adams' day.* On trips to Europe, the staff is headed by Assistant Secretary (for European Affairs) Livingston T. Merchant and Counselor Douglas MacArthur II. When Asia is the landing place, the Secretary's chief aide is Assistant Secretary (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson...
...Cleveland Browns, best in the eastern division of the pro football league, trotted onto Cleveland's Municipal Stadium field last Sunday to play the Detroit Lions, best in the West, for the 1954 football championship of the U.S. The game was figured close: the Lions, champs for the past two years, were the favorites by a slight margin. But the Browns went wild and won in a stunning, runaway upset. Score...
...Browns, a cold, hard perfectionist who handles every game as if it were a strategic contest of coaches' brains. Although his crack passer and quarterback, Otto Graham, knows as much football as any player in the business, Brown minutely directs the strategy. He has won five straight eastern titles, but none of these was followed by a national championship...
...ambiguous language the tools for postponing next time and the time after that. Greece, for all the intensity of its desire for control of Cyprus (whose people are of Greek stock), and Britain, for all its resolve to keep full control of the island that is now its Middle Eastern command post, held back from a quarrel that would impair NATO teamwork between Greeks, Britons and Turks...
...nations might possibly be induced to act in the sense that I have been advocating: Sweden and India. Neither is perhaps wholly neutral. Sweden's sympathies are Western and India's sympathies are Eastern; but both are legally neutral, and in cooperation they might display a genuine impartiality...