Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored by your fair review of my book. As you say, the new Roman Catholic native bishops often descend from kings (or chiefs) of cruel ancient tribes. It was France and the other powers that freed the numerous slaves of these kings and chiefs. As the example of Ghana already shows, by gaining "independence" too soon, the natives often lose their individual liberties in a new theocratic dictatorial state, where politics is in the hands of the clergy and feudal families. In such a "clerical" state, democracy and human liberties-liberty of expression and of conscience-are bound...
Loved for His Enemies. Noting the rising attack on Dulles, his friends, often less articulate than his enemies, have begun to rally. Turkey, threatened only last fall by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, is all the way for Dulles. In Bonn, a West German Cabinet minister, while urging more energetic U.S. leadership, added thanks for America's Dulles: "We would rather have a purposeful man than a gambler. The stakes are too great. Dulles is a sober man. He would never go to Munich, as Chamberlain...
...Gavin paused for breath, Subcommittee Chairman Lyndon Johnson asked him: "Do you anticipate any criticism as a result of your very frank responses to [our] questions?" Replied West Pointer Gavin: "No sir, I do not." Last week, to the surprise of his closest friends, Jim Gavin-often called the most important man in the Army-announced that he will retire in March, after 30 years of service...
...broken more shoestrings than any other man in America," says a Cincinnati friend), walks fast ("You can't call a walk with Mac a stroll. It's more like a run"), drives fast ("He's a good driver but he goes like hell"), flies fast, often pausing just long enough to stuff his toilet articles and an extra shirt into a briefcase before taking off cross-country...
...could start by a solemn pact of nonaggression." Of all the innumerable Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...