Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Johnson, the adroit, trend-sensing Senate Majority Leader, started the session by delivering his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats, pushed a liberal-spending, twelve-point program (e.g., "bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside...
What lay behind the two masks that Communism presented to the world last week? Some guessed that it was part of a global carrot-and-stick exercise, a maneuver planned in Moscow to befuddle the West and destroy its sense of strategic purpose. But many Western diplomats and intelligence agencies...
Wherever De Gaulle went, he found the army wanting a better shake for Algeria's Moslem population, but in no mood for Algerian independence or for giving up the fight. De Gaulle's room for maneuver was small. Extremists in the rebel F.L.N., in one of those unmistakable...
In fact, something about the sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity...
Startled by this maneuver, the school board pondered where and how to place the Raney children. But another segregationist move was easier to check. Seizing on the city's high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for...