Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading back to the caucus rooms in Chicago or their bailiwicks across the U.S., the 22 legislators attending the briefing had one important point to remember. Though the U.S., as President Eisenhower had expressed it at his press conference last week, hopes that "good sense will prevail," there was grave danger that it might not. And if peaceful approaches do not resolve the Suez crisis, the nation-politics-happy Democrats and Republicans included-might be faced squarely with the necessity of surveying sterner measures...
...heed the moral forces of the conference, even to attend it? Said Dulles: "We have given no commitments at any time as to what the U.S. would do in that unhappy contingency ... I believe that by this conference we will invoke moral forces which are bound to prevail...
...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...
...administration said it was not bothering to assign one set to Stevenson supporters and another to Harriman backers, because "it hoped that a feeling of Party harmony will prevail among students gathered around the sets." The administration also appealed to Republicans not to throw things at the screen...
...status quo, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, the Army's razor-sharp director of research and development, told a Senate investigating committee that the fallout from an all-out atomic attack on Russia might kill hundreds of millions of people in friendly nations should certain unfriendly winds prevail. His motive: to attack the deterrent principle...