Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idealistic Swivet. As early as May 2. Ambassador Francis made a forthright plea for intervention, asking rhetorically "whether [the] Allies can longer afford to overlook principles [of worldwide social revolution] which Lenin is aggressively-championing."
But President Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the...
Although the varsity track team has upset predictions with monotonous regularity for the past several years, only the intervention of one of the favorable gods will enable it to win its third straight Heptagonal title this afternoon from Cornell at Ithaca.
Dig the Canal. "More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat...
Such intelligence is woefully lacking in the current Administration, which has placed an inordinate amount of emphasis on monetary policy planning. Monetary policy, which intrudes silently into the economy, is the favored child of an Administration with an almost instinctive tendency to label as evil anything smacking of direct government...