Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization had 48 of the 50 Democratic ward bosses, 30,000 well-oiled precinct workers, and endorsements from both U.S. Senator Paul Douglas and the nation's top Democrat, Adlai Stevenson, who broke his own rule against taking sides in primaries because of "my personal respect and friendship" for Dick Daley, Director of Revenue in Stevenson's administration...
Smiling, venturing a word or two of high-school Spanish, and shaking thousands of hands, Vice President Richard Nixon last week turned his tour of Central America into an unaffected show of friendship among backyard neighbors. To the official ceremonials that stretched his days to 16 and 18 hours, he brought an old political campaigner's grinning stamina; to the warmly human situations that arose as he made friends with humble people, he brought good-natured aplomb...
...spent last year at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study, where he came to consider Oppenheimer, the Institute's director, as "certainly one of the great thinkers of our day." "It was a great experience to know Oppenheimer," he said, "but I am doing this not because of may friendship with the scientist, but because of an infringement of academic propriety. No self-respecting scholar could talk there...
...long as Chiang Kai-shek regarded an invasion of the mainland as imminent, the problem of winning the friendship of the Formosans was lightly regarded. But in recent months two events-the Chinese reds increased attacks on Chiang's offshore islands and President Eisenhower's refusal to support a nationalist invasion of the mainland-have changed Formosa from an offensive base into a "beleaguered fortress," a status which it will probably hold for some time. And in this prolonged war of nerves, the strength of Formosan Chinese Nationalist relations will largely determine the future of the island...
...benefit of the high-riding comrades in Peking, Molotov effusively corrected himself after referring to the camp of world Communism "headed by the U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled from China"; he said that the U.S. "must withdraw" all its forces from the Formosa Strait before peace can prevail. But when it came to aligning Russia with Peking's unqualified vow to "liberate" Formosa, Molotov...