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Word: maneuverers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under this unseemly quarrel lay a bold plan of maneuver: Grivas, who dreams of himself as a kind of Greek De Gaulle, hopes to use Greek passions over Cyprus as a lever with which to overturn the Athens government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis. Last week, driven to plain talk, Makarios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Heroes at Odds | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

A grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: The Old Songs | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Trouble with this maneuver was that even in the industrial towns party members have become increasingly apathetic. Of the 20,000 Polish Communists whose party records include an official reprimand, only 5,000 have bothered to obtain the vindication that the party has offered them. In the largest factory in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Life of the Party | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

In Europe Ike's pre-Khrushchev consultations had triggered eventful and long-postponed decisions. France's Charles de Gaulle, after a year devoted to cautious, almost imperceptible maneuver against both Moslem rebels and self-professed French patriots, drew himself up at last to announce his plan for staunching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Lights & Bells | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

The Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Never 'Ad It So Good | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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