Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hawing, into passing the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction. International tension pulled it, after much doodling and dawdling, into approving President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine. Beyond these two significant accomplishments, the 85th Congress was a true Pushmi-Pullyu: it had trouble making up its mind, leaped in opposite directions after its two heads, and ended up hardly anywhere...
Almost without exception, Administration programs took a budgetary mauling. But Congress was not really of a firm economy mind: it did not hesitate to vote $1,000,000 for new Senate office furniture, or to provide for the House's new $60 million office building, or to lay out $858 million for pork-barrel projects, or to ante up a $317 million pay raise for 518,000 postal workers (without increasing postal rates to cover the cost...
Equally important was the party turnabout on foreign policy. In the 85th Congress it was the Democrats, who have long made internationalism an article of faith, who stalled the Eisenhower Doctrine and gutted foreign aid. And it was the Republicans, long associated in the public mind with isolationism, who stood with the President in his fight for free-world security...
...Intelligence officer for 14 months, John came under Communist mortar fire, earned his Combat Infantryman's Badge and a Bronze Star, won high praise from his superiors. Reported one of them, Colonel Edwin H. Burba: "He's a very competent, long-headed individual with a quick, analytical mind...
...style treason "trial" of his fallen rival. But Soviet specialists in the West do not think that Khrushchev wants a show trial at this point: they suspect that he may simply have concluded that Malenkov's reputation needs further blackening. Malenkov is still identified in the Russian public mind with the promise of more goods and fewer cops-a program which Khrushchev opposed but now wants to identify...