Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having scored a direct hit on McCarthy's "foreign policy," Dwight Eisenhower opened fire on the Gibraltar of McCarthy's political arsenal, the suspicion that Communists will continue to hold Government jobs. Said the President: "Fear of Communists' actively undermining our Government will not be an issue in the 1954 elections. Long before then, this Administration "will have made such progress in rooting them out ... that this can no longer be considered a serious menace...
...quick Western acceptance and a quick note to Moscow, so the outside world would not get the notion that this was the only reason for the Bermuda get-together. Early January in Berlin would be a good time and place, the Americans agreed. Bidault said France would prefer to hold it off for a while. At one point in the discussion, Dulles warned Eisenhower he was raising his voice, then stepped to the windows to see that no eavesdropping was possible...
...20th century, the vastest empire of all is challenging the ancient historical cycle of rise, decline and fall. Great Britain hopes to accomplish this feat by an agile balance of yield and hold; and by shifting from an imperial dominance-by-one to a Commonwealth partnership of all. Can the British succeed where all other empires have failed...
...forum is now tentatively scheduled for March 5. But Shanks said he was willing to hold the forum any time that is convenient for both speakers...
...extravagant terms; they applauded, extravagantly. As was usual, they only half listened to the after dinner speech. Half listened, until they heard the words: "...White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important position he ever hold." An angry buzz, the properly indignant grant, a happy I-told-you-so smile. As one executive calmly lit his cigar, Attorney General Herbert Brownell lit the fuse that set off partisan charge and countercharge across the nation...