Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire off a formal 22-point salvo at the Eisenhower Administration. "The Republican Party is unworthy to continue to exercise the power of national government," preambles the D.A.C.'s pile of campaign planks. It lays down a hard line against President Eisenhower's personal peace campaign ("Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed drive into space. It slams the anti-inflation policy ("Age-old affinity for the moneyed interests"), scores the prolonged steel strike...
...resounding proclamation got plenty of headlines, but it suffered from one basic defect: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats who can do most to translate the program into law, stayed far, far away from the D.A.C. session and said not a good word for its platform...
...That while the U.S. and Europe increasingly enjoy the good life, many nations outside the Communist bloc are getting more populous and relatively poorer. ¶That the U.S. should do no less about it, but that Europe should do more. ¶That someone ought to provide focus, plans, and machinery for all the scattered remedies that so far have not been extensive enough, or inspiringly imaginative, or outstandingly successful...
...cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight"-but Lukban saw to it that Lewin spent the night in his cell. Next morning, as the fur began to fly. Garcia's Secretary of Justice Alejo Mabanag announced that NBI Chief Lukban would be fired "for the good of the service," and Lewin, free on bail, sped away in his air-conditioned Cadillac...
...Betancourt. So far, these fears influence Villalba and Caldera more than transitory resentments against Betancourt, and keep the three politicians sitting at the same table. Said Caldera: "The parties learned in the crucible of persecution the beneficial lesson that the interest of each is lost if the common good is not assured...