Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myth of McCarthy's prowess. No man-especially no Senator (other than an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart")-dared stand against him. This myth, propagated mainly by anti-McCarthy "liberals," helped swell McCarthy's headlines, and, since head lines are a form of power, a gross exaggeration of power begot actual power...
...debate centering on whether revision was a "Pandora's box or panacea," Norman Cousins, president of the United World Federalists and editor of Saturday Review, clashed with Gross, by urging a change...
Since the United States chief consideration should be its own national interests and security, a political revision would be meaningless, said Gross. It would "only dramatize the frustrations" of smaller countries, without solving their more basic economic problems...
Graham compromised by agreeing both with Gross, that to "accentuate differences would be unwise" and with Cousins, that all people have a "desire for survival on this planet...
...review of the possibilities, Gross stated that three types of revision were possible. He did not think advisable either a "punctuation conference," making only technical amendments to the charter, or a "show-down conference," attempting to "kick the Russians out." More probable, he though, is a "propaganda or educational conference...