Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nuclear weapons under specific and supervised international disarmament agreement. 3) In terms of our national weapons policy, it is the responsibility of specific officials of the Government -notably the Atomic Energy Commission, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the President-to weigh, at all times, the proper emphasis on various types and sizes of weapons, their testing and development. Such emphasis is necessarily subject to constant review and reexamination. This specific matter is not a subject for detailed public discussion-for obvious security reasons...
...Nixon moved across the eastern half of the U.S. last week in the home stretch of his 15,000-mile tour. He scolded an ardent Republican lady who asked questions about Adlai Stevenson's divorce ("I think that any personal life of a candidate should not be a proper political issue"). He sidestepped the political credits and debits of the World Series ("I lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy to the speakers' stand at Milwaukee's Marquette University, not even mentioning...
...fine, flaring disrespect for the outside world, coupled with a profound understanding of Georgia and its politics, carried both Talmadges to the governor's mansion. As governor, Herman inherited and refined his father's credo: keep down the cities, hold the Negro to his proper place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces...
...Rites, ceremonies, systems and dogmas lead beyond themselves to a region of utter clarity and so have only relative truth. They are valid so long as they are assigned their proper place. They are not to be mistaken for absolute truth. They are used to communicate the shadow of what has been realized. Every word, every concept is a pointer which points beyond itself. The sign should not be mistaken for the thing signified. The signpost is not the destination...
Defense is the most extensive activity in which the national government engages, and its operation directly affects the careers of millions of Americans, especially young men of draft age. On its proper management our survival depends. The questions of what weapons and how many men to use are highly technical and might seem too involved for the average voter to assess...