Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring peace and stability to this area. But unfortunately passion in the area threatened to prevail over peaceful purpose. The direct relations of Egypt with both Israel and France kept worsening to a point at which first Israel, then France, and Great Britain also, determined that in their judgment there could be no protection of their vital interests without resort to force. The U.S. was not consulted in any way. Nor were we informed in advance...
...Liberace is one thing, but when it goes to the extreme of criticizing the hallowed tradition of mother's love, it's beyond the pale. It would seem that anyone with the proper regard for the Good Neighbor policy would hesitate to fling insults at the judgment and good taste of millions of people of an allied country, who are devoted and ardent admirers of Liberace...
...Assured the U.S. that the current rate of fallout of radioactive strontium 90, "by the most sober and responsible scientific judgment," does not imperil the health of humanity...
That, for all practical purposes, will be the campaign. On Election Day Adlai Stevenson will cast his own ballot in his home town of Libertyville, Ill., then retire to his farm to await the judgment of his fellow citizens...
...more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment. F.D.R. played the presidency by ear, sometimes with real political virtuosity, as often as not with "a thin streak of cruelty.'' (Said Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan in 1911 when F.D.R. was a brash young New York state senator: "This fellow is still young. Wouldn...