Word: readier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Increasingly concerned with Communist gains in his own country, Nehru is readier than he once was to discuss the defects of Communism. On another occasion last week he pointed out that Marxism had got its historical prophecy wrong, failing to foretell the prosperity of America. Sometimes it seems as if Neutralist Nehru, who likes to balance off two great world forces, has lately concluded that the U.S. has now become the underdog that needs a little defending...
...worldwide alarm over Soviet long-range missiles, scant attention was paid to the U.S. Army's warning that Russia has made startling progress in the development and production of conventional weapons. Last week, with its Explorer triumphantly orbiting, the Army found a readier audience for its down-to-earth worries. The Army's argument: if it is to meet the Soviet challenge on the ground, it needs more and newer hardware...
...original name-"Grande Bretagne." By the time he got there, some 50,000 people had packed themselves into the square before the hotel. Speaking to the crowd from the hotel balcony, Makarios promptly made it clear that his months of exile in the Seychelles Islands had made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less insistent on enosis, i.e., union of Cyprus and Greece. He defiantly eulogized Cyprus' EOKA fighters for their "sacred sacrifice on the altar of freedom," proclaimed "our irrevocable decision to throw off the yoke of slavery...
...there were troubles to be met. Though he was no opportunist, though he said what he thought whenever it was useful, he made few enemies. Many stood in awe of him because of his deft and pungent tongue, but apt as he was in attack or retort, Sherwood was readier still to give mercy, happier to be tolerant than to be angry...
That's the Way. Tito's other rebel last week amiably sat back waiting for the disciplinarians to come after him. Milovan Djilas had been stripped of all his offices a year ago, and seemed readier than his friend to accept the consequences of his heresy. "If it had been Kardelj under attack, I would no doubt have been forced to lead the fight against him," he said. "That's the way Communist parties work...