Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about it," he told the National Food Conference in Washington. Amid the flap, Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee quietly reported a bipartisan conclusion: if further easing of credit and "acceleration" of federal spending fail to end the .recession, then "tax reduction will be in order"-but "such action is not now recommended...
...triumphal procession and a tonic for the dispirited President of a mismanaged nation. He arrived in the U.S. quoting Abraham Lincoln, got a ticker-tape welcome in New York City, saw Hollywood (he was disappointed to miss Ava Gardner, who was off in Spain), made an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He told the Congressmen that "we of Indonesia are in the stage of national turmoil through which America passed some 150 years ago. We ask you to understand," and won hearty applause by dwelling on the many similarities between the American Revolution and that...
...complement the forbidden-zone scheme, France would like to see the establishment of a joint Franco-Tunisian commission to supervise the border area. Tunisia is unlikely to accept any such proposal. With 70,000 men, the F.L.N.'s army is one of the biggest in the Arab world, far overshadows the 6,200 lightly armed soldiers of the Tunisian army. If Bourguiba now agrees to help France end the traffic across the Tunisian-Algerian frontier, the F.L.N. and its Tunisian sympathizers could, and perhaps would, run him and his government out of office...
...Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa and Halaib regions, the Egyptians agreed to pass to the Sudan administrative control of two areas which jut northward above...
wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Marjorie Elizabeth de Morgen-stierne, wife of the retired Norwegian ambassador (TIME...