Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solomonic wisdom that will find the elusive line which is ideal for neither side but acceptable to both, and then the method to guarantee those borders by international compact. That would be the beginning of the essential basis of peace, namely, Arab acceptance of Israel's right to exist...
...Egypt's immemorial poverty, disease, corruption. So on the last page, Nasser's constitution has a dictatorial escape clause confirming as law all the military junta's previous decrees-including those restricting freedom. One of the last clauses said that for now, only one party may exist-a National Union (Nasser's Liberation Rally under another name). Next June 23, the National Union is expected to offer as sole candidate for a six-year presidential term the man all Cairo newspapers now refer to as Mister Nasser...
That table-thumping, hell-raising, commonsensical Republican, Charles Gates Dawes, could have had just about any job in Washington when Warren G. Harding was elected President in 1920. But Dawes, a banker by training and a rebel by instinct, wanted a job that didn't exist. "As much as I would like to see your Administration a success," he told Harding, "nothing could tempt me into public life now, except possibly Director of the Budget, if that office is created-and that...
Poujadisms (uttered genially, sentences punctuated with roars of laughter): "We want to put new blood into our Republican institutions. You wouldn't have to blow very hard right now to overturn them ... If France had been governed by an honest group of men, this movement would not exist today ... I would like to shoot everyone who has not informed the country about the financial situation . . . We should follow Portugal's example and practice a vigilant type of nationalism . . . Call me a Fascist if you like-after all, they had some good ideas...
...government that is alert to it all but prefers to pretend that none of it goes on. Hong Kong is the world's main door to Communist China and the only ready haven from it, and partly for this reason, it is a colony where political rights hardly exist. It is ruled by a British governor with powers that to all effects are absolute, and a vast majority of its inhabitants are quite happy to leave it that way. It is an example of what human beings will pay for security and order in an insecure and disorderly world...