Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States has given $20,000,000 to Tito in order to keep open a gap in the Iron Curtain--to play politics, that is--when the U. S. Congress can scarcely bring itself to consider appropriating $35,000,000 for much-needed services to poor nations, under the Point Four program. We have presented the Russian propagandists with a ready-made, gold-plated argument for use not only in these doubtful areas and Europe, but indeed in the whole world...
...tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street. He would like to see as topflight installed at that point, and is working for one at present...
Secondly it is possible that the plan may not produce the desired markets, in which case business investments would probably not be forthcoming, and the government would either have to back out, or carry the whole load itself. On the other hand, if Point Four succeeded too well, foreign goods might undercut American markets, and this, too, would be unpopular...
...other hand, Point Four's protagonists state, the program need not entail domination of foreign peoples and would be a positive action against any advance of communism into these areas. It would show, they say, that nations can find means of taking care of their needs without giving up their freedoms, and would win many friends...
...Administration's bill got a cool reception in the Committee, and will have more tough going on the floor of the House and Senate. Congress must now decide whether Point Four is economically and politically unsound or whether, as Representative Javits of New York said, it is "top flight foreign policy thinking--a real American answer to Communism...