Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future of the U.S. economy, Nixon summed up, is the bright promise propounded by the newest Rockefeller report of beefing up the gross national product from $434 billion today to $707 billion in 1967. "It will never be achieved if we adopt a standpat status quo attitude toward our economy. It will never be attained in a socialistic straitjacket...
...hailed by the party's moderates as a sounder man, whose advocacy of racial partnership was hard-headedly based on economic necessity rather than evangelizing zeal. The Africans were not reassured. Declared George Nyandoro, secretary-general of the African National Congress in Southern Rhodesia: "Whitehead is a status quo man. A government led by Whitehead would only make concessions when concessions were forced upon it. The Africans will have to do the forcing...
Between these two major points there was no quid pro quo; the U.S. was not forced to accept negotiation in order to get European acceptance of missiles, nor were the other NATO powers forced to accept missiles to establish the offer of negotiations. Many NATO countries had long been importuning the U.S. to provide them with modern weapons. But U.S. negotiators came to realize, more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers...
...Britons concede privately that his return sooner or later is inevitable. A solution Britain would consider: independence for Cyprus, retention of NATO bases on the island, but no merger with Greece. One of the biggest sticking points is Turkey's increasingly stubborn insistence on partition or the status quo as the only ways to safeguard Cyprus' outnumbered Turkish community. But if good will and determination could find a way, Sir Hugh Foot seemed the man to find...
...ordinary citizen has long since silenced his talk of freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime calls hooliganism" are the only emotional outlets. Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight...