Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, having brought things to a dead stop, Eden sought to regain the appearance of momentum. He announced that Lord Radcliffe. the eminent constitutional lawyer who arbitrated the tangled boundaries between new India and new Pakistan in 1947 would be sent to Cyprus to work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." Then Eden set about fencing in Radcliffe's area of maneuver. Radcliffe may confer and chat with British officials on Cyprus and "any others who may wish to speak to him," said Eden, in fact with anyone except the man who mattered most, the exiled...
...freedom!" (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Poznan revolt clearly heralded more trouble to come for the Communists as their Big Thaw got out of hand. Criticism was pouring into the Kremlin from Communist parties in Britain, Italy, Canada, East Germany, France, the U.S., Belgium; the Kremlin nonetheless kept up the momentum of its demolition of Stalin and, with that, of the iconography of the Communist way of life for the past 30 years...
...attained a rapid rate of industrialization, Dulles conceded, partly due to the use of forced labor. The new countries of Asia and Africa might be lured toward the Communist system to achieve rapid economic gains unless they understand that freedom offers something better. "Our free society derives its principal momentum from its religious character. We believe in the spiritual nature of man, and in the human dignity which results from the fact that man has his origin and destiny in God. Such beliefs provide a constant and powerful compulsion toward peaceful change toward a better world . . . During a period when...
Peace-and U.N. prestige-took a beating at a Security Council meeting last week. To thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum for peace built up by his Palestine mission, the British had cooked up a well intentioned resolution. To make it speak for East as well as West, Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well...
...Angeles Stock Exchange Vice Chairman Frank E. Naley: "If his recovery is rapid and complete, there should be no letup in the record industrial expansion. A slow recovery or a decision to withdraw from politics could possibly cause some hesitation, but would not stop the expansion program. The momentum is too great." Added Inland Steel's President Joseph L. Block: "Over the long range, no one man's health can have much effect. The forces in the economy are too powerful." Said the world's biggest banker. President S. Clark Beise of the Bank of America...