Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide arms for Western Europe, but it was obvious to him that only the U.S. could. He did not say, but his audience knew that the Administration was already preparing a first-year program of $1 billion to $1.5 billion in arms shipments to Western Europe. It was the point in the North Atlantic Treaty discussions that was most likely to get senatorial danders up. The Senate, after plenty of questioning, would probably produce the two-thirds majority vote required to ratify the pact. But several key supporters of the alliance were not ready to buy the pact without looking...
...Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson urged bird watching upon U.S. neurotics, but warned: "Beyond a certain point even the birds can't help...
Estoclet gave Yale a two-point bulge after the first day over Michigan and Ohio State, top teams in the country last year...
Arguing that the American Revolution was not a mistake the Debate Council won its first post-war international debate but the losing due from Cambridge University won the audience with jabs and quips on such American institutions as the drug store and the ball point pen, and kept the more serious-minded Americans searching for an issue to fight...
...final rebuttal, Pattison admitted that the Revolution was a turning point, but questioned whether that made it necessarily good. The U. S. "plundered" the continent, he claimed, and added that American Democracy had its roots in Locke and the British revolution of the 17th century. Even Watt, he said, "was neither Russian nor American...