Word: lodestars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just looked at them," said Medeiros, "and they just looked at us." To add to the family's trials, strangers came by at all hours "to see the Indians." Last week, his nerves frazzled by guests and gawkers, Medeiros shepherded his guests into a Brazilian air force Lodestar plane to take them back home. One buck had a cold, but otherwise the savages looked none the worse for their brush with civilization. Medeiros was pale, haggard and bone-tired...
...Lodestar. Acheson's involvement in U.S. foreign policy began, not in 1949 when he became Secretary, but in the years from 1941 to 1947, when he was first an assistant, then the Under Secretary of State...
During those subordinate years at State, Acheson had been an intellectual lodestar, and sometimes spokesman of a "liberal" group opposed to a "right wing" group (led by Adolf Berle) which had taken an antipodal position on Red Russia. The Acheson group (which included, among others, Alger Hiss) had held various attitudes toward Russia, none of them unfriendly. It was the Acheson group which had been the first to believe that the Chinese Communists might be tamed, and the last to identify the real enemy as Soviet Russia...