Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the statement was only 140 words long and was issued in Eisenhower's typically low-key manner, it was an important definition of U.S. policy for the Middle East. First, it put U.S. support squarely behind the U.N. as the best instrumentality for keeping the peace in the area, and did so at the strategic time when U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was flying east to work toward a cease-fire between Israel and Egypt (see FOREIGN NEWS). Moreover, the support for U.N. implied that the U.S. would expect help from Moscow (in not using its veto power...
...looks as though we'll get our pictures one by one, doesn't it?" he said. By the following day, however, the first fine careless rapture subsided. A member of the Dublin City Council announced that it "would certainly not accept a picture obtained in such a manner." "We have an irrefutable moral claim to the picture," said an Irish government spokesman, "but it is scarcely necessary to say that the government thoroughly disapproves of the [students'] action...
...Little Too Late. A wildcat strike of 6,000 transport, industrial and catering workers, paralyzing Pamplona, took the authorities by surprise. Said Civil Governor Carlos Arias: "Order will be re established in a firm and inflexible manner." Though Arias threatened that workers would lose their social benefits, and called out the Guardia Civil, Pamplona's workers paraded the city's sunny streets in their best clothes. The strike fever spread to the Basque city of Bilbao (scene of a 1953 stoppage of shipbuilders), Tolosa, San Sebastian and other northern towns. Thus far only workers in small dispersed industries...
...Congressional investigation, on the other hand, need not precipitate such splits if it cooperates with AFL-CIO and does not prefer exposes to cautious but powerful press releases. In such a manner, criminal elements in unions would be faced with reprisals from the parent organization and with legal action from the government. But cooperation between government and labor must be accompanied by a determined stand on the part of businessmen to deal honestly with honest unions. "Stand up to the hoodlums!" advised New York Attorney General Jacob Javits. If business would refuse to pay kick-backs and more important, report...
...similar honors course for seniors, Economics 102, will be given in 1957-58. Covering money and finance, it will operate in the same manner as Economics...