Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked how the agency intended to distinguish jokers from legitimate customers, he explained, "We'll have to rely on what the girl tells us, just as she'll have to rely on us for a man of reasonably good character. There's an element of risk involved for both...
...This element of risk was too much for one Radcliffe student, who pointed to a story in yesterday's This Week magazine concerning a male escort service which served as the. "front" for a blackmail racket...
...Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
...National Security Council meeting next day the President and his advisers settled the key elements of crisis policy. Military element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles...
...accept Tillich's interpretation; 2) a kind of shock treatment for the complacent, who are apt to be driven, by Tillich's unorthodoxies, to re-examine the basis of their own faith; 3) a passionate, contagious concern for the human condition and for faith as an essential element of that condition...