Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, then, the new Israel? Was it for this that we contributed thousands, as Christian Americans, hoping to establish peace with justice...
...preamble of the Constitution of the U.S. states the goals of our people, which I believe are equally the goals of the brave people of Korea," Eisenhower concluded, "namely, to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . . With the conclusion of an armistice, the U.S. is prepared to join with the Republic of Korea to seek for Korea these ends . . . It is our desire to go forward in fellowship with the Republic of Korea. Even the thought of a separation at this...
...Precedent. Such a manifesto, the President explained, amounted to a U.S. threat to friends and foes alike in the U.N. Cutting off funds, moreover, would be tantamount to U.S. withdrawal from the world organization, a precipitate act which might destroy the U.N. It might establish a bad precedent, too: other nations could use the same threat as a sort of ex-officio veto power to hamstring the U.N. And, more immediately important, the timing of the resolution was bad, might easily do damage to the tense Korean truce talks...
...German who, with his wife beside him, met with the village leaders was Alexander Post, commercial counselor of the German embassy in Athens. Under the reproachful eyes of the black-draped widows, he asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs to ship its fruit crops, livestock to increase the village's pitiful herd of 100 cows to 1,000 or more; a training...
...plan to set up a new Council of Economic Advisers was sent to Congress last week by the President. The work of scholarly Economics Professor Arthur F. Burns, who will head the new council, the plan will re-establish CEA as the President's top economic advisory group. Like the old CEA, first set up under Harry Truman's Administration, the new three-man board will keep an eye on U.S. economic changes, advise the President on what to do about them, help him prepare his economic reports to the nation. But there the comparison ends...