Word: fails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands of the Communists. It's 'just their meat'. But instead of taking any active stand, the West has tended to take the policy of find the enemy's policy and then stop him." The Western powers ought to seek their own, more positive foreign policy. If they fail to do this, they will be unable to cope with the new world situation. "If you don't recognize reality, it will defeat you," she says...
Authorities said, however, that Eisenhower has given no pledge he would go to a summit meeting if the foreign ministers fail to ease tensions. The actual language of the U.S. note, it was said, will follow closely that in Eisenhower's speech eight days ago. He then promised to consider a summit meeting if developments justify...
Accused of fomenting the Mosul rising, which had the bad luck to fail, Gamal Abdel Nasser appeared a very nervous man. He responded recklessly...
...probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
...Sophomores come from only ten private and ten public schools. This is a surprisingly small number of institutions, in view of the 115 secondary schools resented by A. P. applicants. Too many schools, Wilcox explains, fail to realize that a capable senior can handle three college-level courses. Some limit their seniors to one or two such classes, eliminates any possibility of Sophomore Standing. In addition, many high school teachers think advanced courses are merely intensive duplication of the usual fare, rather than presentations of new material. Wilcox expects the present reluctance to "push" promising students to disappear...