Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never provoke a war, and cheerfully assumed that everybody else knew it too. But did they? Acheson, in London, had discerned a European concern over the way that U.S. military men -arguing before Congress for arms to Europe-had stressed Russian strength, Western weakness and the threat of war. "Neutralism" was spreading in Europe; it was largely an indication that Europe was trying to stand on its own feet and think for itself and that was a good sign; but to the extent that it represented a European desire to find a neutral corner away from two quarreling big powers...
...Neutral Ground. Last week, after a long period of planning, Administration peacemakers tried to bring about a truce between the Secretary and Congress. Their scheme was based on the frank and open approach; they admitted that the Secretary might be a cat, but felt he was such a wonderful cat, so cold of eye, so sharp of claw, so silky of whisker, so clever of mind that even the dogs would admire him if they just got to know him. The Secretary was just back from Europe, full of news of the Western Big Three meeting and of the twelve...
...spoke he came to grips with an insurmountable problem: a cat, addressing dogs, does not dare speak like a dog for fear he will be accused of imitating an Airedale, and dare not speak like a cat for fear of annihilation. There is only one recourse-a dry, neutral marsh-bird tone...
...feet, to do as it pleased. It was reasonable to assume that what a strong, free Europe would decide to do would be to fight Communism, not for the sake of the U.S., but for its own sake. If that assumption involved for the U.S. the risk of a neutral Europe, the risk was not as great as the risk of a weak and divided Western Europe...
...particles makes a track like a "V," with two branches spreading from a single point in space. Therefore, said Anderson, the particle is neutral (while still whole it leaves no track in the cloud chamber), and it disintegrates into two charged particles that do leave tracks. The second new particle has a charge, and therefore leaves a track. But the track has an angle in it, indicating that the original particle turns (at the angle) into two particles, one with a charge and one neutral...