Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your reporting on the McCarthy-Army hearings [May 3] was superb. As a Democrat, I should rejoice at this sordid spectacle of Republicans belaboring Republicans. But as a loyal American, I cannot in my heart find any joy in a fracas which is seriously injuring the prestige of the United States, and keeping the minds of the people and legislators from far more vital affairs...
...while, he planned to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Said he: "It won't make five votes difference in my district whether I vote for or against it, so I'll probably vote for it. That way people can't accuse me of not being loyal to my party." But he must have recounted and found a ten vote difference because, although his own convictions on the St. Lawrence were nil, he ended up by turning against the President again last week. ¶ Even New Jersey's Senator Alexander Smith, usually an Eisenhower Republican, last...
...underneath the sly, somnolent exterior, there is more. Under the wartime threat of torture and death, he was cool and brave. Under the pressures of cold war, he has held courageously to the proposition that for France, survival lies in loyal alliance with the U.S. At the Berlin Conference, with a divided government and country behind him, he spoke out firmly and unequivocally. "He is a realist who will not let the dream of the best prevent him from grasping the good," said one who considers himself a friend. "The core of Bidault is rigidly moral and deeply religious...
...Involvement. The U.S. has long been pulling out of the colonial business-voluntarily. Hawaii and Alaska are close to statehood; Puerto Rico has been offered more independence than its loyal American citizens are willing to accept. In the Pacific, the U.S. is keeping most of the bases it won from Japan (e.g., Okinawa), but in the Philippines it can point with pride to unprecedented colonial achievement. The Philippine Republic is unique not because it is well run and democratic (many British colonies are, too), but because its people, voting freely, elected President Ramon Magsaysay, a man whose platform is solidarity...
...data was either "careless reasoning or malicious misinterpretation." He tried to cut Menninger off from his colleagues: "I do not believe that those [psychiatrists] who have been most vocal in criticizing what we have done represent the mass of you." In fact, he said, there has been "no more loyal group" than the psychiatrists supporting his research...