Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farm. Ignoring panicky pleas from farm-state Republicans, the President put principle over politics, vetoed a Democratic bill freezing 1958 supports at 1957 levels. In his veto message he explained why the bill would do farmers more harm than good. From the land came kudos for his courage.
But President Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the...
Just when the battle seemed lost, Brigitte found some friends in Pennsylvania's State Supreme Court, which two years ago canceled a state movie censorship act, but left standing the anti-obscenity film statute. The court slapped D.A. Blanc with an injunction requiring him to let the movie be...
It's a two-dollar, one-hour train ride from Princeton, New Jersey to either Philadelphia or New York City. The nearest thing to a girl's college for miles around is the public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from...
Von Braun hurried back to the dinner table, broke the news of Sputnik I, turned earnestly to Neil McElroy. "Sir," he said, "when you get back to Washington you'll find that all hell has broken loose. I wish you would keep one thought in mind through all the...