Word: lilliput
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, in advance, to reject any negotiated settlement relinquishing any territory to Communists anywhere. Cried Jenner: "The air is full of foreboding that a carefully laid plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that no hidden appeasers can pervert...
...Life-modeled magazine went on the stands, the press run of 750,000 copies was sold out before noon. Within six months its circulation soared to more than 1,600,000. Under Editor Tom Hopkinson, Picture Post became a valuable property in Publisher Edward Hulton's* chain (Lilliput, Farmers Weekly, Housewife). Hopkinson skillfully blended sex, crime and sports features with campaigns against appeasement of Hitler and British unemployment. During World War II, Picture Post's picture coverage was Britain's best, and after the war it was responsible for such exposes as the government's blundering...
...nation lies defenseless, a Gulliver in Lilliput with Harry Truman as the second most Lilliputian of them all and Johnson a midget among them. We have only four combat airplanes, two tanks (one being Johnson himself), five six-star generals and a converted armored yawl, once the property of Josephus Daniels...