Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success?" The Secretary of State replied sharply: "Why do we have to take a dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure has been built up, Acheson said, the Foreign Ministers' meetings show what the gains or losses in each side's position have been...
...Kennan, like almost all U.S. officials, dismissed the possibility of an Asiatic Marshall Plan, or a Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty. But, he reasoned, Southeast Asia is potentially self-sufficient, and still tied flimsily to the West by frayed cords of the past. He thought the West might be able to build that part of the world into a loose, anti-Communist economic federation by friendly assistance and some money...
...Senators shifted uneasily. Like the Westchester delegates, the Senate had a petition of its own, signed by 57 Senators of both parties. It urged passage of a resolution to direct the President to cut 5 to 10% off appropriations finally voted by Congress. But such a let-Harry-do-it approach was just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve...
...productive and gracious economy of Hawaii was paralyzed last week; its territorial government was powerless to act. Most of Hawaii's 540,000 residents were seething inside like old Kilauea, the volcano with the pit of eternal fire. It was the eighth week of a strike by 2,000 members of Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, C.I.O...
...stained old brick and stone buildings, jammed together as tightly as those of Philadelphia or Baltimore. Hundreds of old-fashioned clapboard houses stand uneasily in the sun along its older residential streets. But the visitor in 1949 is apt to stare at them less in recognition than in disbelief, like a wanderer pushing through the vine-hung ruins of Angkor-Thorn...