Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles, whose brinkmanship has kept the world on edge during...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had unduly alarmed West Berliners with legalistic press-conference talk about dealing with East German puppet Communists as "agents" of the U.S.S.R. in "perfunctory, routine matters," backed a strong statement that the U.S. was "solemnly committed'' to West Berlin's defense, would never abandon "the people of West Berlin to hostile domination." Vice President Nixon, visiting Britain (see The Vice-Presidency), proclaimed that "we already have two Germanys-Khrushchev would give us three," and sent a message to West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "I, as well...
...bridled once when Albert Gore, carried away, said passionately: "I want my President to call [the Russian] bluff." But for the most part Dwight Eisenhower seemed impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting a way out of an otherwise bitter, abrasive impasse on the question of test suspension...
...jubilant football squad, with the Yale victory two days old, elected Hank Keohane of Winthrop House and Arlington, Mass., next year's football captain. Center Bob Foster was chosen Most Valuable Player of the season and, rounding out the post-season awards, John Reardon of Kirkland House and Cohasset, Mass., was awarded the Undergraduate Manager's job for the coming year...
...Foster's play at center helped make this year's line among the best in the league...