Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...
...fosters diversity of opinion. Others complain that ABC abdicates its own responsibility in giving newsmen so much leeway, that its listeners tend to heed only the commentators who echo their own prejudices. The other extreme, even when buttressed by the sense of responsibility of the network, produces more lip service than performance, and mixes hypocrisy with the punditry. "At CBS," says one newsman at another network, "you just say 'Uh-huh' to the no-opinion policy and then go ahead and pretend to make omelets without breaking eggs...
...President's actions in lessening the tensions and hatreds built up around the integration controversy have so far been most often lip-service. Presented with numerous opportunities to state a position designed to cool the passions of the parties involved in the dispute, he has contented himself with well-intentioned platitudes from Washington. His prestige and moral authority could, if brought to bear in the South itself, bring a movement toward many of the positive goals he has espoused...
...agony that in only ten weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University...
Nehru paid lip service to the principle of self-determination, but, in fact, steadily tightened India's hold on Kashmir. At first India ruled the state through 6-ft. 4-in. Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Kash miri Moslem who had long been a friend of Nehru's. But in 1953. when Abdullah showed signs of objecting to Indian domination, he was thrown into jail, and remains there now without trial. So-called "peace brigades" of Indians rigidly suppressed advocates of Kashmiri independence or union with Pakistan. At Indian behest, a hand-picked Kashmiri Constituent Assembly began to draw...