Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced, in line with President Eisenhower's determination to help Poland's new government maintain its independence from Russian domination, that at U.S. invitation Warsaw has agreed to send a Polish mission to economic talks in Washington in the near future. Chief item likely to be negotiated: a request by the hard-pressed Gomulka government for a big (at least $100 million) loan to finance the purchase of U.S. surplus agricultural products, farm and mining machinery, fertilizers...
...Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran." Their mission. he said, would be "to restrain any attempt to exercise belligerent rights" contrary to the 1949 armistice agreement: in short, it was warlike of Israel to invade Egypt, but it was also warlike of Egypt to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba...
Editorialized the Democratic Atlanta Constitution: Ike's speech was "inspiring and filled with patriotism. It was in the best tradition of such speeches . . ." Said London's Daily Telegraph: "Every sentence proclaimed the President's absorption with what he now clearly regards as his remaining mission in life-the creation of a true and lasting peace . . . The whole tenor of his inaugural address suggests that in the next four years we shall see this grand design persistently pursued. This dedication should be an inspiration to the world...
Before he could even get his feet under the desk, Sandys flew off to Washington, the first ranking member of the new British government to visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory...
...country paper have long viewed weeklies more as a rural retreat than as an influential segment of the press. But with the swift growth of suburbs and small towns since World War II, weeklies have largely shed their cracker-barrel ways, developed sophistication and a new sense of mission. Today they are the fastest-growing publications in the U.S. Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc. reported last week that the 8,478 weeklies in the U.S. in 1956 reached a paid circulation peak of 18,529,199, up 6.5% over 1955. Estimated gain for the 1,700 dailies (total circ. more than...