Word: looks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believing, we look on our nation's great wealth as more than a hard-earned resource to be used only for our own material good. If we can truly cooperate with other nations, especially our friends of the free world, we can first defeat the evils of hunger, privation and disease. Thus we can develop a healthier, more prosperous world, and in the process develop greater prosperity for ourselves...
...Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral: "If you dumped a messy problem in his lap, he would somehow tidy it up and put it neatly in a package and dispose of it. He was the best Navy Secretary we ever...
...continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...
...this atmosphere of unparalleled good will, Dwight Eisenhower will this week get his first look at India. What manner of country...
...another reminder of India's past-the gigantic pink sandstone President's House, which used to be the palace of the British Viceroy. Today's India prefers different monuments: bustling factories that turn out locomotives and toothbrushes, diesel engines and radio sets. For all its look of the past, the ambitious young republic is forging ahead in atomic energy, quadrupling its steel capacity in a few years' time, rushing to completion a vast network of irrigation canals and hydroelectric plants...