Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major disaster if that area were to fall into the grip of international Communism ... No single formula will solve all the problems of the Middle East. They will have to be attacked in a variety of ways . . . But the evolution of events now requires us to add this new element to reinforce our other actions in the area...
...interested in what White calls "the first necessity of the American political method--the necessity to compromise the demands of the sections and the interests." And perhaps the most important element of this compromise is the personal accommodation between members which Mr. White feels governs the Senate's life...
...with booming-voiced gladness, in the manner of one who truly loves his club and its members-not for what they may be individually, but simply because they are members of the club. William Fife Knowland, 48, Republican from California, minority leader of the Senate, was back in his element, pleased with his lot, and eager to come to grips with the conflicts facing a party that has just triumphantly won the White House, and lost control of the Congress...
...make itself felt. They knew that we were opposed to this thing, but they had continued as long as they did even in the face of that opposition; they only had to continue for a couple of days more and that job would have been done. The only new element that had come in was these Soviet threats, which were very, very strongly phrased." "But," insisted CBS Newsman George Herman, "you don't think it was moral suasion that stopped them?" Answered Dillon unequivocally: "I don't think it is moral suasion, no." Broadcast three days later, Dillon...
...said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert and Sullivan. (With a heynonny. .) Another element of undue sobriety can be found in the piano-playing, which because of its conscientious competence makes the overture seem interminable. The blocking is also occasionally stiff, but, in the case of the chorus, amusing enough. The production as a whole is more than amusing enough...