Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farm Equipment Workers International Union, who had refused to answer House un-American Activities Committee questions about Communism. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Warren, included a scathing denunciation of congressional investigative activities; critics of the opinion argued that in trying to put a rein on congressional investigators, the court instead had come up with a noose...
Failure in Homework. But even as his successes were applauded, there was a growing Pentagon feeling that Neil McElroy was not doing his homework. He was impatient with briefings lasting more than 15 minutes, was hard put to read the reports that began piling up on his desk, made frequent trips to U.S. military installations around the world when he might better have spent more time in his office. Presenting the defense budget to Congress this year, he seemed distressingly unfamiliar with important details of one of the world's most complex jobs, made several inept slips...
...imply an iota of change in Gromyko's stand. And as if to make that clear, the Soviet Foreign Minister for the first time adopted a threatening note over Western insistence that there must be progress at Geneva to justify any summit talks. Said Gromyko: "Should any state put up ... obstacles to a summit meeting, that state will take responsibility for the consequences...
Political Lecture. Having put down the rank and file, Adenauer was ready to deal with Erhard himself. Already a bitter joke was circulating: Adenauer should get an honorary degree in medicine for being "able to break the spine of 270 Christian Democratic parliamentarians without spilling one drop of blood." Morning after Erhard's arrival, party go-betweens took him to the Palais Schaumburg to hear soothing words from Adenauer, accompanied by a brisk lecture on the mathematics of political survival. Adenauer conceded that Erhard, with the help of perhaps 30 or 40 Christian Democrats, might be able to collect...
...Gaulle has vastly complicated Norstad's-and NATO's-existence by 1) refusing to accept launching pads for U.S. intermediate-range missiles in France, 2) failing to integrate France's strategic air defense into an overall NATO system, 3) denouncing an agreement that obligated France to put a third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in event...