Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bomb went off, my wife sat up in bed and said, in a surprised voice, "My word! Another bomb !" Our two older children, aged 4 and 2½, were rather excited, but not unduly disturbed. We thank God that he did not allow the larger bomb to explode; the police said it would have leveled the house. We can take the bombs and the nasty phone calls and letters; we can take the insults and the stares. But please, we don't want people to think we've started to get panicky and to run away...
...East crisis seemed to be heading for a settlement, the question was: "What if Israel refuses to get out of Gaza?" To forestall such a refusal, the President and the State Department engaged in the most serious diplomacy of the winter. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, What If . . .? As for the larger-looming question-"What if Russia decides to oppose the U.S. moves to establish world order?" -the U.S. now has the biggest big stick in its history: an armed force far mightier than the Russians', presided over by Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Echoing Krag's fears. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak flatly warned that the British proposal would not be permitted to delay "even for a single day" establishment of the six-nation* Common Market, which will constitute a tightly knit "little Europe'' within the larger Free Trade Area. The difference between the two is that Britain, for example, agrees to reduce its tariff barriers with the Six at the same rate as the Six reduce them with one another, but Britain would retain control over its own tariffs in trade with other nations. If all goes...
...London next month. Initial Washington reaction was cool. Reasons: the Russian proposal, coming two days after Moscow announced a cut in defense spending, seemed designed to 1) dramatize recent Soviet calls for uninspected arms reductions and 2) act as an entering wedge for what looms as Moscow's larger propaganda objective, a new meeting of heads of state...
...chain-smoking Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp strolled into the Washington museum, ripped joyfully into modern art while his listeners choked, fretted and guffawed nervously. Capp's special quarrel was with the pure abstractionists-"that small group of the unbalanced who sell shameless products through a larger group of avaricious and unprincipled to an enormous group of the totally dazed." Aren't the abstractionists' products good for anything? Sneered (Ugh!) Critic Capp later: "They'd make good neckties for Elks' conventions...