Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of comedy, however, the Trib players allow themselves to romp with such abandon that the script becomes a contender for the laughter of the audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
Johnson, a scholarly Southern bachelor, had plugged along through 27 years of foreign service in both Latin America and Europe, was U.S. Minister to neutral Sweden during World War II. In the past two years as deputy U.S. representative in the U.N. Security Council, Johnson has tangled time & again with the U.S.S.R.'s Andrei Gromyko...
Historian Beard carefully avoids the implications of an Axis victory had the U.S. stayed "neutral." Instead, he confines himself to evidence that Roosevelt deliberately goaded Hitler with Lend-Lease, illegal convoying and attacks on his submarines that amounted to undeclared war. When Hitler refused to be provoked into war by this abuse, Beard argues, President Roosevelt began, through diplomacy, to squeeze Japan into a position where she would be sure to fight. Not only that, says Beard, but Roosevelt and Hull rejected a Japanese "truce" which might have averted a Pacific war entirely. This line of argument indicates a willingness...
Ever since the United States decided to support the partition of Palestine, Arab leaders in the Middle East have wracked their brains for a way to neutralize American policy. Last week the best they could do was rage and turn an impotent purple. Then the Arab League began to squeeze American oil companies operating in member stated. Syria refused to ratify a giant pipeline deal with the Arabian-American Oil Co., and Lebanon truculently announced that it would spike every concession until the U.S. injected a more neutral flavor into its Palestine policy. Oil men hastily marshalled their lobbies...
...Democratic National Convention, just after Garner had handed Franklin Roosevelt his 101 delegates and assured his nomination, the late Will Rogers, who had stumped for Garner, came to Timmons and growled: "I've been neutral all my life . . . and the first time I come out for a man he throws his strength to a fellow with a Harvard accent. No good can come to a Texan who does a thing like that...