Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves. But it is speeding arms deliveries by air to Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia...
...higher wages on their minds. Packinghouse workers demanded that the government import more Argentine cattle to provide work. A group of Montevideo doctors struck for duty-free automobiles. Teachers-college students struck for preference in teaching appointments. There is a growing tendency toward brief general strikes in support of particular union's demands. Communists, tolerated by the government, energetically back every strike, prolonging each as long as possible...
...course I am disappointed," the President told reporters at his news conference, "because these things that I talk about are not pet projects of my own. I have no particular personal reason other than that of a concern for all of the United States of America for wanting them passed, but that reason is governing and controlling...
...designate to Ceylon, who "brought glee to Democrats, made Republicans glower when he admitted that he could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent and able...
...Bloody Angle. Jimmy Richardson was always bored by news of government and politics and was convinced that readers were, too. "Unless there's a bloody angle to it," says one longtime staffer, "Jim just don't care." His particular talent, in the '40s and early '50s, was to make it seem as if bodies in trunks were arriving hourly at Union Station-and when one did, Richardson expected every staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade...