Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people here and abroad believe that the creation of armed defenses must inevitably lead to war. This is not the case. We do not think war is inevitable." He was willing to consider the difficult question of co-existing with Communism, but under conditions that would render world Communism powerless to threaten the security of the free world. "So long as one country has the power and forces to overwhelm others, and so long as that country has aggressive intentions, real peace is unattainable ... As our strength increases, we should be able to negotiate settlements that the Soviet Union will...
...platform. Equally memorable were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...
...progressive ideas (last January he began sale of his vast land holdings to peasants on easy installment terms, gave the proceeds to charity). But when the oil crisis flared up, though he was opposed to the fanatical National Front, he did not dare take action. He is now powerless before fragile, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq and his National Front...
...once the British Navy was powerless; three warships that had tried to rescue the Amethyst had been turned back severely damaged...
Iranians could use such a non-political mission. For years they have been oppressed by the landlordmerchant governing class; taxes are regressive, administrators corrupt, and famines frequent. Honest and progressive elements are powerless against the numerous, well-heeled special interests and all reforms eventually end up stillborn...