Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon made a point of telling Khrushchev that the house was well within the means of U.S. working-class families. The house cost $14,000, Nixon said, and could be paid off over the course of 25 or 30 years. "You know we are having a steel strike," said he, finessing a certain Russian high card. "Well, any steelworker can afford this house." Then the conversation drifted to kitchen equipment and exploded into a cold-war debate that newsmen dubbed the "kitchen conference" and the "Sokolniki summit...
Khrushchev (loudly): Yes, this is the kind of competition we want. But your generals say they are so powerful they can destroy us. We can also show you something so that you will know the Russian spirit...
...Soviet press had thawed, and began running detailed accounts of the running debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. Both Pravda and Izvestia even carried photographs of Nixon. When Nixon got around to visiting Moscow's permanent U.S.S.R. Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, just about everybody in Moscow seemed to know who he was. Walking around the monumental 500-acre exhibition - which even includes a Hall of Rabbits-Nixon shook more than a hundred hands, smiled at and was smiled at by thousands of friendly Russians...
Breaking away from Geneva's torpid air, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter flew to West Berlin last week to reassure 2,200,000 West Berliners that the U.S. had not forgotten its "binding commitment" to save them from Communist slavery. Said Herter: "I know that the people of West Berlin regard our troops and those of France and the United Kingdom as defenders of their freedom. I know, too, that the presence of these troops-which will be preserved-is indispensable to that freedom...
...ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that wherever it is, we shall lose...