Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter the probing actions before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand plan that the cause-human freedom-deserves and the objective -an orderly, peaceful world of prospering, responsible nations-demands...
...Sputnik, the U.S. strengthened its steady recognition that crisis is the cold-war staple that must be lived with and lived up to. The 1958 record looked even better because of Communism's failure to keep up its Sputnik momentum. And while the U.S. failed to define the grand plan-despite the stabs made by President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson, et al.-this failure was mitigated by the fact that, as the year closed, leaders of both parties were finally convinced that the definition was urgently necessary...
...become king despite himself stood at the top of his dangerous and difficult trade. It was difficult to realize that so grand a figure in the world should also have been so good and simple...
...formality had to be observed, even though the outcome was never in doubt. Last week 81,500-odd "Grand Electors" of France-deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, municipal councilors-elected the first President of the Fifth Republic. There were three candidates: an obscure Communist mayor, a Sorbonne dean, and Charles de Gaulle...
Happily home in Athens after two months of successful junketeering in the U.S.. where she handled everything from White House luncheons and atomic-science briefings to roadside snacks, e.g., a prickly-pear cactus malted at the Grand Canyon, lively Queen Frederika of Greece graciously turned the other cheek for a warming buss from King Paul, who stayed put to mind the palace...