Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action we regret." To emphasize U.S. displeasure, Dulles indicated that Egyptian acceptance of Russian aid to build the Aswan Dam would mean U.S. withdrawal from the $1.3 billion project. Next day Ike removed some of the sting, saying that a single unwelcome act by another nation does not "destroy friendship for that nation...
Since those early days, Richardson and Mexico have become close friends. Each has done well out of the friendship: in 1932 the bank lent the Mexican government $10 million and in 1936 Richardson married a Mexican girl, now has two children. He owns a handsome home in the fashionable suburb of Coyoacan, has filled it with a collection of art treasures and a cluster of warm friends. When he an nounced, to no one's surprise, that he would remain in Mexico as an investment counselor, his feelings for his adopted country broke through his customary reserve. "The country...
Cease to Tease? Frémont had what some might consider too neat a talent for winning the friendship of useful men. First it was a lawyer who sent him to college; then it was a man who became Secretary of War; most importantly it was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust...
...China for the first ten years of his life, conjures up the flowering mists, brooding mountain masses and gorge-shadowed surfaces of the Yangtze as if from a child's vivid book of memories. Equally vivid and enlightening is the image of two cultures once fingertip close in friendship, destined by later history to draw back and ball their fists in sad and bitter enmity...
...coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain's colonial position. Mellowed and increased in wisdom by this friendship, he won Stanley's support, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production...