Word: informals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavs took pains to inform the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office that the visit would not affect Yugoslavia's "cordial and good relations with the West." But all in all, it was quite a coup for Communism's No. i renegade: never before had Headman Khrushchev traveled beyond the border of Kremlin-styled Communism. Tito was probably too cagey to put his head all the way into the bear's mouth. But at the very least, he seemed to be very busy at the old Balkan game of playing off major powers, in hope...
...before the members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in Manhattan last week stepped Elisha Hanson, the A.N.P.A.'s general counsel. "I have the unpleasant duty to inform you," he said, "that the Department of Justice is about to initiate an antitrust action against the A.N.P.A., charging it with having conspired not only with other trade-association groups but with its own members . . . unreasonably to restrain trade in advertising...
...country a disposition to hinge all policy in the Far East on what the President does about Quemoy and Matsu. If it would advance the cause of peace, I would be happy for the President to declare his policy. But how would it advance the cause of peace to inform the enemy of what we intend to do? No one can say that it would advance the cause of peace to invite Red China to take more land held by free China...
...promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories with relish. "Every new day," he recalls, "would bring something fresh, exciting, dangerous...
...East. U.S. leaders are convinced that the Chinese Communists are about to attack the offshore islands now held by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. The Reds are expected to hit the Matsu group between April 15 and April 30, the Quemoys a month or so later. To inform and prepare the Congress and the people, the White House this week scheduled a series of bipartisan conferences on the danger and the problems the new estimate presents...