Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, as an epitaph for this 86th "Vendetta" Congress that at a time when foreign nations, both infant and aged, sought for some cynosure, this Congress was noted for the elevation of personal grudges, the exemplification of the unworthy argumentum ad hominem, far above any rational, sensitive investigation...
...public Kozlov grin showed the true face of Soviet policy-was plain this week when New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1943-46, reported, in LIFE and in memos to top Administration policymakers, on his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). To Harriman, Khrushchev seemed to be dangerously cocky, dangerously ignorant of the West. Even after discounting Khrushchev's performance as tactical bluffing in part, Harriman found him "shocking, worse than Stalin." Khrushchev's two biggest threats...
Nixon: When it comes to foreign policy, Mr. Herter and I speak as one. You understand that...
...billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made a point of order: Wasn't this provision circumventing...
...argued that the Communists' censorship of all but approved foreign authors was a fair indication of their intellectual freedom, and the suppression of Tibet typified China's disregard for agreements and readiness to settle issues by force...