Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's top brass, the ideal Secretary of the Navy is a civilian who soaks up briefings, cuts an impressive figure before congressional committees, signs his name legibly and relies for all his decisions on the Navy's top brass. Navy...
...middle-road socialist government of Denmark is Figueres' ideal. "Our movement," he said, "is not in any sense a Marxian revolution. It is really a revolution of the middle class...
...Ideal Food." The new emphasis on the U.S. waistline has forced some food producers into hasty counteraction. Dieting has already helped cut per capita consumption of wheat flour from 157 Ibs. pre-war to 130 Ibs. a year, and the worried American Bakers Association is spending a good part of its $1,000,000 advertising budget to plug bread as a reducing food. Annual potato consumption dropped from 132 Ibs. per capita in 1939 to 104 Ibs. last year...
Secretary of State Dulles spoke: "This is a solemn hour . . . For the first time in history, an international organization has stood against an aggressor ... All free nations, large and small, are safer today because the ideal of collective security has been implemented." Dulles promised that in the political conference the U.S. would press for a united Korea. He, too, sounded a warning: "Let us recognize that the need for effort and for sacrifice has not passed . . . Let us, this time, not relax...
...reimpose customs duties. Some Dutchmen grumbled that they had made all the concessions. At any rate, the arrangement falls so far short of economic union that pessimists feel that the old ideal of unity has been abandoned...