Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying fruitlessly to rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats for a "more positive" approach to the U.S.S.R. that usually involved concessions to placate neutralist opinion. The Pentagon, on the other hand, was restless lest the diplomats tie the U.S.'s hands-and the very real strength of the deployed U.S. Armed Forces-by agreeing to negotiate too much and to make unnecessary concessions: "We've got 'em by the tail...
Even before the Argentine agreements were announced, many Brazilians were criticizing Petrobrás. In São Paulo, the authoritative daily Folha da Manhã ran a public-opinion poll, found that only 11% were in favor of Petrobrás as now run. More than 14% voted for strictly private enterprise, and more than 55% favored joint development by Petrobrás and private foreign and Brazilian companies...
...Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British and Commonwealth opinion demanded it, who put over the idea of holding a summit meeting with a major condition attached: it must be held...
Pakistan. Though the nation's leaders were sticking by the Baghdad Pact, newspapers and public opinion showed quite an admiration for Nasser. The influential Karachi newspaper Dawn commented: "A brother with whom we may have fallen out is still a brother and nearer to us than a stranger...
Under the sign of The Bull (a hotel in Buckinghamshire, England), Cinemango Jayne Mansfield played a favorite role, herself, for an Evening Standard interviewer. "I'm absolutely against lust," she breathed. "It's very immoral, in my opinion. What I'm against is [pause]-what does salacious desire mean? [Pause.] Yes, that's what I'm against-salacious desire. What you've got to have is inner sexiness and inner cleanliness. Sex without love isn't anything. [Pause.] Mind you, love without sex isn't much, either...