Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles went to bed easily. He ate soft foods, slept deeply for the first time in weeks, read a couple of Ellery Queen mysteries plus the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and a new book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, What We Must Know About Communism (Norton; $3.95). Once or twice he phoned the office for a check on things. In the State Department one day, while Dillon was presiding over a morning conference, a secretary sent in a United Press International dispatch...
...little more than an hour the President was at Dulles' bedside. For 25 minutes they talked. Ike told Dulles that he was counting on him to get back to work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will...
Bolstered by his hope that Secretary Dulles may recover sufficiently to return to office, President Eisenhower has not given any serious thought to a successor. But those who know the President best-and who also fear that the problem of the successorship might soon become urgent-see these as the top five names...
...said Britain's Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, "that my destiny lies in the field of social reform-and I am happy in it." To those who know the cool and acid-tongued Richard Austen Butler well, the philosophic tone of the first part of that remark must have seemed odd; Rab Butler has shown not the slightest sign that he has given up hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer...
...shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development of the child...