Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ante worried Hays more than the morals of the matter ("I do not know what the quid pro quo was") or the economics ("He is doing what the President says -'Buy Now' "). To keep it from soaring higher at U.S. expense, Hays introduced an amendment striking out $400,000 in military aid and $200,000 in technical assistance funds to Trujillo...
McGann emphasized that disillusionment of students and liberal intellectuals has arisen especially as the result of U.S. support of the dictatorial regimes. Even passive American support of the status quo has served to alienate these groups...
...poor; laborers in Lima get $1 a day. Poverty breeds envy of the rich U.S., and a distrust of capitalism. Noted Nixon after a look at Peru: "South America is not going to support a system of free enterprise if the system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit the U.S. with favoring hated strongmen; Venezuela is currently irked because...
...naturalized French citizen and member of the French National Assembly. The boss of the ruling political party is also a naturalized French citizen. Last week, when Togoland held its first election under universal suffrage, not even the opposition thought that the voters would do anything but confirm the status quo...
...real aims and exposes the naiveté of those who, undaunted by the failure to win Stalin's cooperation after the last war by giving him all he wanted, now propose to win Khrushchev's cooperation by offering him nuclear disarmament, 'disengagement' and the status quo...