Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself had warned of this danger. Only three weeks ago, answering an insistent demand that he run again, he said: "Humans are frail-and they are mortal. Finally-you never pin your flag so tightly to one mast that if a ship sinks you cannot rip it off and nail it to another. It is sometimes good to remember that." And he had broadened that advice to include all of the U.S.: "Any American would like to think that he has the confidence of his fellow Americans when he is trying to do a tough job. But, again...
...humans are frail-and they are mortal. [We] never pin our flag so tightly to one mast that, if a ship sinks, you cannot rip it off and nail it to another. It is sometimes good to remember that...
...Under the law, the Treasury must buy U.S.-mined silver at a fixed price of 90.14? an oz. Silver-users are backing a bill, introduced by Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Green, to eliminate silver price supports, thus drop the price, but western Senators are fighting tooth and nail to kill the idea...
...easy to misunderstand this new mood as narrow provincialism, selfishness or irresponsibility. But in fact it was a lot healthier than the global nail-biting that had preceded it. Chronic crisis and creeping frustration had produced some ugly effects in the U.S., the most conspicuous being the emotions roused pro and con a weightless opportunist named Joe McCarthy. Now McCarthy had receded to a mere smudge on the political landscape. His decline is part of the restoration of the U.S. picture to its proper perspective...
...wits and his own two hands." In the spring of 1955 the U.S. people were confident, but far from smug. Eisenhower and Dulles had not ended the cold war, nor had the people been lulled into thinking it was ended. What had ceased was the chronic crisis, the futile nail-biting, the frustrated tensions that previously surfaced in such phenomena as the pro-and-con McCarthy yawpings. Now, the U.S. had the idea that something constructive could be done about foreign affairs-and the idea of doing something constructive is the idea with which Americans feel most at home...