Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain had thrown their weight behind an innocuous Norwegian resolution to turn the problem of Lebanon and Jordan over to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. And Russia's Andrei Gromyko, though full of snarling references to Western "armed intervention" in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern nations, met privately with U.S. Secretary of State Dulles in a small office in the U.N., and agreed that "a quieting down" was in order...
...Middle Eastern crises come and go, but sheiks must eat-and His Highness, Sheik Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah of Kuwait sometimes has prodigious company with his meals. On his oil-born annual income of $260 million, the number of guests he could see around him at a given dinner party is limited only by the geographical horizon. But even so, sheiks do have to pare their invitation lists, which explains why Abdullah of Kuwait has ordered-from West Germany's Vereinigte Werkstaetten furniture makers-only 200 straight-backed, 14-carat, gold-plated dining-room chairs...
...speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. had drifted into bootless "You're another" exchanges with Russia and Egypt-exchanges from which all parties emerged somewhat soiled. After Ike's speech the U.S. again stood clearly before the world, not as a spokesman for the Middle Eastern status quo, good or bad, but as a power devoted to orderly international evolution. In the process, the half-convincing Soviet picture of the U.S. and Britain as an "aggressor" in the Middle East was destroyed, and the General Assembly diverted from sterile argument to the more positive task of trying...
Though the U.S. will not have its own list ready for at least two months, it promptly made it clear that it would hold to its ban as far as Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet Nam) is concerned. Other nations follow no such double standard for Eastern Europe and Asia. They will now be allowed to export to any country that wants them such newly freed items as civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that...
...rock twice: and the water came out," and it thirsts now. By and large, its lands have the necessary soils and minerals, lack only irrigation to bloom with fruit and grain. Last week, in his United Nations speech, President Eisenhower took due note that water could end much Middle Eastern misery, and offered U.S. aid in getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground water, which is plentiful in the Middle East, the U.S. will supply isotopes of the kind used by oilmen to trace...