Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech to the American Management Association (see The Presidency) and was reflected at all Administration levels. Studying a batch of hopeful signs, e.g., in unemployment, housing, etc., one top Administration economist said: "The month of May. I would say, would be rather distinctly better. You can get in the frame of mind that you've been waiting for the good news for so long that you can't believe it when it comes. I honestly do not feel that the facts of the moment justify a gloomy outlook. I think they justify an optimistic outlook.'' Said...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee was in the same statesmanlike frame of mind as it considered the $3.2 billion foreign aid authorization bill already passed by the House with only $339 million cut. Certain of the wisdom of continued aid, the committee restored $104 million of the cut. Even that cut was adopted apologetically as a necessary tactic to forestall deeper cuts when the bill hits the Senate floor. To prove good will, the committee even voted to let the President himself decide where the $235 million cut could best be shaved...
...from space overhead came the clanking sounds of history on the move. To the U.S., it was a week of challenge unmatched since the days of the Korean war. More important. it was a week when the U.S. knew the challenges for what they were and began to frame the proper responses...
...challenge of South America, for what it told about the national frame of mind and will to deal with problems once defined, was the most heartening. Back from the humiliation at the hands of Communist-led mobs in Venezuela came Vice President Richard Nixon. His first concern was not with redressing his personal grievances but with setting right the things that he had found wrong with U.S. policy in Latin America; it was challenge and response. On this course his perennial enemies the Democrats agreed, even though they swung on Nixon as a political target as a result...
...those still in a bearish frame of mind, Roy L. Reierson, vice president of and chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., argued that the leveling out of the economy is still ahead...