Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the "pattern of periodic wage increases" will price them out of both the domestic and foreign markets. It is "terribly important to stop the wage-price spiral at this juncture," he said, by settling without a price increase. Chamberlin agreed that "the real issue of inflation is the reaction on other wages. Whether the price of steel will have to go up is "only a small part of the problem...
...sorry that your article didn't emphasize the oddness of New York's reaction as well as the aimlessness of the delinquency...
Whose Opinion? The U.S. State Department's reaction to all this was pithily summed up in a letter written by Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson in answer to a request for information on the case from Michigan's Congressman Alvin Bentley. Wrote Henderson: "I would like to state categorically that our officers in the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Izmir were deeply concerned about this case from the beginning and that they acted properly and with good judgment to safeguard the rights of the accused. In my opinion, [they] have lived...
Laughter in the Gallery. The response in the U.N. hall to Khrushchev's oratorical whopper was stunned silence, broken once or twice by incredulous laughter from the press gallery. And this came close to summarizing unspoken official reaction throughout the West. For diplomatic reasons, no one wanted to come right out and say "nonsense," but the fact remained that Nikita's demand for total disarmament was so absurd and impractical as to be insulting. It paid no more than token heed to the all-important Western insistence that any disarmament agreement is meaningless and dangerous without an ironclad...
...such a reaction did occur, when did significant doubt start...