Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answering criticism of his inaction at a Cabinet meeting about this time, Premier Mollet blurted: "You must have confidence in me. Something is going to happen before the end of the year. I cannot say any more: there is a diplomatic secret to be kept." Also, from that moment forward, U.S. diplomats lost all contact with their London and Paris diplomatic sources on Middle East matters. U.S. queries were turned aside, requests for information evaded, interviews deferred...
Germany was worried by fears of what might happen to NATO. Predicted one foreign office man: "Many little strains and disagreements may now become big strains and big disagreements...
...volume of mail that comes in to a magazine or a newspaper is no index of anything except that you happen to attract a lot of idiots, because most people that write letters to newspapers are fools...
...verge of trying to grow too fast, if indeed we have not already started." Says H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's Rockland-Atlas National Bank: "To continue to inflate to even higher levels may lead to a wild boom-and-bust cycle. It can happen here...
Both movements are basically different from what might happen in the Soviet Union, he argued, because there is little traditional nationalism to divide loyalty to the Communist ideal in the U.S.S.R. The nationalism of the border states he termed a minor exception...