Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation of Danger. Between them last week. President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles defined the two sides of U.S. policy toward Communist conciliation. Dulles said: "Nothing which has happened, or which seems to me likely to happen, has changed the basic situation of danger." At his press conference, Eisenhower said that the U.S. should accept at face value the Communist peace overtures, and proceed in the hope of making agreements...
Foster Dulles had slapped McCarthy's wrist, but he had also held his hand. Reporters surrounded McCarthy and asked about the wrist slap, and about McCarthy's new melody. How did it happen that his negotiated agreement had been reduced to a voluntary byproduct? Said McCarthy: "I don't recall what I said the other day." When a reporter pointed out that he had used the word "negotiations" (it was in the first line of his publicity handout), McCarthy asked: "Did we?" Then he headed for a holiday in Florida...
...they flew east, Mose McManus followed by train, looking like a man trying to awaken from some incomprehensible and terrifying nightmare. Fred had coldly turned his back on the weeping father. "I know what is going to happen," he said. "The electric chair. I want...
...anti-Semitism). But the principal fall guy is Semyon D. Ignatiev, Stalin's last Minister of State Security, and a bureaucrat who was elevated shortly after Stalin's death to one of the five secretariat seats on the party's powerful Central Committee. "How could it happen," demanded Pravda, "that in the depths of the Ministry of State Security ... there could be fabricated provocational matter, the victims of which . . . [were] a series of outstanding leaders of Soviet medicine?" The answer: Ignatiev was guilty of "political blindness and gullibility." He had failed to detect the "shameless lies...
...secretly the Nationalists were delighted at the court's decision. Deep in a national election campaign in which the No. 1 issue is "How tough should we get with the blacks?", their candidates can now paint vote-getting pictures of what might happen if apartheid is relaxed, if only on a "separate but equal" basis. The more liberal opposition United Party pays lip service to equality, but insists on separation. United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss hastily assured the voters that if elected April 15, his party too would uphold "traditional segregation...