Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas called the reluctance of Great Britain, Canada, India, and France a desertion of the policy of collective security, and attacked them for not voting with the United States to label Red China's "powerful act of aggression . . . because their interests are not immediately involved...
...minute show ended with everyone misty-eyed and agreeing that money can't buy happiness. Sentiments like these, flowering in Faith Baldwin's prose, have earned her a place in Connecticut with a 22-room house and a pool. But she sometimes broods because critics label her Pollyanna. "The reason my stories always end happily is because the magazines prefer happy endings," she explains. Actually, she argues, her plots often have a high tragic content: "I've always jumped the gun on my themes-I did a book on alcoholism, for example, which wasn't popular...
...Prepare for War. This was not isolationism, Taft said, nor was that the label for Hoover's doctrine of Gibraltar-ism (TIME, Jan. 1). "It seems to me that our battle against Communism is in fact a worldwide battle and must be fought on the world stage . . . [but] our first consideration must be defense of America." Here is how he would wage the battle...
...Peculiar Soldier. Most of the men in U.S. uniform around the world had enlisted voluntarily, but few had taken to themselves the old, proud label of "regular," few had thought they would fight, and fewer still had foreseen the incredibly dirty and desperate war that waited for them. They hated it, as soldiers in all lands and times have hated wars, but the American had some special reasons for hating it. He was the most comfort-loving creature who had ever walked the earth- and he much preferred riding to walking. As well as comfort, he loved and expected order...
Congress last summer passed the McCarran Bill, which forced registered Communist groups to label their material as coming from a Communist organization. But so far few people have recognized the effective groups publicizing right-wing philosophy...