Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabled TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre: "If any agreement comes out of this conference, it will only reflect the realities of the present position; it will not create new realities. The fact is that in Europe the West is stronger than Russia. Either the Russians, who are usually realists, will accept that fact and make a deal favorable to the West, or they will refuse to accept it, and keep on fighting the cold war, in which case they ought to get progressively weaker in Europe...
Acheson, who has a keener sense for conference table tactics than either George Marshall or James Byrnes, frankly stated the U.S. position: "We are in Berlin by virtue of international agreements...but more fundamentally we are there on account of power and force and the successful prosecution of the war...We are in Berlin not merely to administer the city but to be in Berlin...
...either side, the four-lane Paseo was flanked by tree-shaded islands that separated it from one-way lanes beyond. Students studied on the islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...
Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...three paragraphs read, in part, "we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers." Reporters either deleted this section entirely or moved it much lower in their stories. The result, for most readers, was a simple statement that Communists should be banned from the teaching profession--top educators had come around and were finally siding with the "Little Dies" committees...