Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
...London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
...recalcitrant members on an unusual charge: conspiracy to obstruct justice (possible sentence: five years' imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal to talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight in conspiracy trials, it must nonetheless be proved that the Apalachin mobsters have refused to talk through group decision, not as individuals...
...Having put literature in its secondary place, Khrushchev was inclined to appear forgiving to erring authors who were willing to be tamed. At the Third Soviet Writers Congress in Moscow, which he addressed last week, three authors who had been chided in the past (including Ilya Ehrenburg) were "rehabilitated" by the writers' union. The "bearers of revisionist opinions," proclaimed Khrushchev, "have suffered a complete fiasco," and it is now time for "other Soviet writers to help those who have committed errors and recognized them to rejoin the big family of authors. The angels of reconciliation are already flying...
Since the suffocation of academic life is only one aspect of the military and political squeeze which France has put on Algeria, the solution to the student problem rests upon the result of the Algerian war. To M. Aitchalal's mind, there are only two possibilities. The total extermination of the Algerian people, of whom 500,000 mainly civilians, have already been killed, or truce and negotiations, based on France's public recognition of the independence and equality of Algeria...