Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, Khrushchev's 13-day tour of the U.S. had produced an indefinable relaxation of mood. None of the causes of conflict had really been removed, but somehow everybody seemed to feel better. Campaigning in Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan jauntily announced that "everybody is agreed" to a summit meeting and that everything seems to be clear except fixing "the date and the place and the people." And on a brief stopover in Moscow on the way from Washington to Peking, Khrushchev himself spoke of Dwight Eisenhower in language of a kind Soviet leaders have never before applied...
...howled down Tory Macmillan's attempts at street-corner speeches in Scotland and Yorkshire. And at Swansea, as Macmillan walked wearily toward a railroad station entrance after a seven-speech day, a woman bystander suddenly assailed him with a loud "Boo-oo-oo." Rounding on his tormentor, the Prime...
Even Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan hastily dropped his unruffled "Supermac" pose. "The Labor Party is deeply divided," he told a London suburban crowd. "Some are practically fellow travelers, some almost Communist." And in speech after speech during a tour of Scotland the Prime Minister boldly laid claim to credit for the greatest diplomatic event of the year. "Do you think," he asked, "that Mr. Khrushchev and President Eisenhower would have been discussing together at Camp David if I had not decided to break the ice and go to Moscow last winter...
...Rascals. Cynics. Men without shame," raged Prime Minister Fidel Castro, back on TV and so agitated that the pencil he uses for a baton in his harangues went Hying across the room. The targets of his newest attack were the conservative Havana dailies, Avance (circ. 22,000) and Diario de la Marina (circ. 28,000), which up to now have supported Castro, but are growing restive under his highhanded rule. Last week the papers sounded a loud, clear voice of opposition in Cuba, and the Prime Minister was infuriated. "They play the game for vested interests," cried Castro...
Economists still believe firmly in gold's prime importance as the ultimate financial standard. They consider it psychologically vital to fiscal confidence, useful as a long-term guarantee that countries can meet their bills. But they have long since ceased to regard it as the sole test of a currency's stability. More important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they...