Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summit Meetings. I do not oppose summit meetings as such. Indeed, I have always believed that we should not permit ourselves to be placed in the position of opposing a conference at any level, including the summit. My major point was that a summit conference is useless unless we know what we wish to discuss there. I do believe that the manner in which we have prepared for the coming meeting has not been too responsible...
...question, McCormack explained why he remains on the House Committee on Government Operations. He said that he had been chairman of the committee, but had stepped down to let "a great American," Bill Dawson, the first Negro chairman of a House Committee take over. "I stay on, because I know he'd feel heartbroken if I were to resign," McCormack declared...
Skeptic Russell also speaks far more respectfully of medieval scholastics such as Duns Scotus and William of Occam than he does of the modern West's fashionable philosophers, most of whom, in their different ways, have abdicated man's proudest aspiration, which is to know what is what. Marxist and pragmatist agree that truth depends not on what is said, but on who says it-and why and when and with what results-so that for Americans who have accepted the notions of William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth...
...highly publicized Brooklyn dress manufacturer who didn't know the name of the premier of Ceylon and the German-speaking Ambassador to France are all too typical of American amateur diplomats. Such men are needed, in the cases of Paris, London and other Western European capitals, because a career man cannot afford the huge expenditures of an embassy social season; they are used in other cases because the United States has not awakened to the importance in international relations of normal diplomatic channels and a competent man on the spot...
...negotiating parties know that a compromise will finally be reached, there is a premium on adopting an extreme position," he maintained. "We can not make proposals we believe in, and yet constantly come out with new proposals." If the result is increased rigidity in policy-making, he continued, there is an equal increase in responsibility...