Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week too, the Nixon party returned from behind the Iron Curtain with a big conclusion that helped put the U.S.S.R. and the cold war into clearer focus: the economic gap between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is still enormous. Because that gap strikes the eye hard, visits to the U.S. by Soviet officials work to the U.S.'s advantage. So can the reciprocal visits by U.S. policymakers, who, as they take the measure of the Soviet Union, can shape policies with more accuracy-and, apparently, with far more confidence that the policies are succeeding...
...only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members or his trust." Among 21 counts of "improper actions" by Hoffa and his lieutenants, and parallel charges based on the record of the committee's 1958 hearings...
...from New York to the moment he boarded another (Pan American) five days later, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller convinced the governors' conference at San Juan, Puerto Rico that he is a deadly serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. In press conferences, in hard digging behind the scenes, in earnest conversation with his fellow Governors, and in tireless, wide-grinning glad-handedness, he had no serious challenger as the conference's star operator. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond: "My impression is that Mr. Rockefeller can hardly wait...
Back in 1924, when she and Christopher Robin went down to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, A. A. Milne's Alice sympathetically remarked: "A soldier's life is terrible hard." Neither she nor England had seen anything yet. In those days the rigid young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour...
...substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will no longer be so dependent on the whims of Arab rulers in the Middle East...