Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stave off Communist aggression but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom-plus-economic-progress. Moreover, the new program, evolving out of such successful predecessors as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, is in keeping with U.S. traditions and the U.S. idea. "We are stirred not only by calculations of self-interest," said the President in his TV speech, "but also by decent regard for the needs and the hopes of all our fellow men. I am proud of this fact...
...appendix, sutured the wound 50 minutes after he had made it. Home again and healthy a few days later, Ohmura had not proved that Japanese are more dexterous than Westerners (an American surgeon excised his own appendix in 1932 and a Mexican surgeon, from whom Ohmura got the idea, repeated the performance in 1946), but he had clearly demonstrated that they can be at least as eccentric. "I learned one thing," he reflected ruefully. "It really hurt...
...suggest that aerial inspection would have its futile aspects. Atomic energy can be manufactured and nuclear experiments of all sorts can be carried on in buildings not distinguished by any peculiar shape. Even if planes were equipped with monstrous Geiger counter devices, neither nation would have a very sure idea of what was going on. Intended as a means for initial communication, "open skies" might possibly breed increased fear and suspicion, especially should either side find it difficult to account for various mysterious installations. Even if aerial inspection were limited to flights over Arctic airfields it could neither check surprise...
...Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache who leaps at every idea, flailing with all extremities, as though it were a mouse to be torn limb from limb...
...took the Somerset Maugham Award, the grand "Old Party" of British letters loosed a choleric blast at the "whitecollar proletariat." Said old (83) Somerset Maugham: "They do not go to the university to acquire culture, but to get a job, and when they have got one. scamp it ... Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are scum...