Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige has grown. His stature as a statesman has solidified. His capabilities have become more widely recognized than ever before. His stock as a legislator never has been higher, his reputation never more acknowledged, and his fairness never more appreciated...
...week began, Washington was talking clearly of a December summit, to be preceded-perhaps at the end of October-by a pre-summit planning meeting in Paris between Eisenhower, Macmillan, De Gaulle and Adenauer. Then, through "presidential channels" (a category of communication with an even higher security rating than "top secret"), came word from De Gaulle to Ike that he thought summit talks should wait until next spring, and that in the meantime, he had invited Nikita Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this...
...Most of you have sharp minds not connected to your eyes," said Anderson. Brandishing his stalk, he analyzed its structure with a breathless flow of higher mathematics; he tossed in rich dollops of economics, sociology and religion. "Man's history is that of maize, the great crop," said he. "In this highly patterned world, you must see more and more complex patterns." Murmured a dazzled Dutch psychologist: "A-maize...
...Bishop of Hannover. And he said it in a form to which Germans are especially sensitive: a discussion of the text in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13:1 that has sometimes been blamed for Christian docility to Hitler-"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance...
...delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, the subject came as natural as breathing. Among them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...