Word: readier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macmillan is speaking simple truth when he angrily denies he is an appeaser, and insists that he has no intention of surrendering vital Western positions to Russia. But he is readier than others to meet Khrushchev's demand for a de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, provided that West Berlin's freedom is preserved. And the fact remains that Britain, more than any other Western power, is convinced that its hopes for the future rest on early termination of the cold...
Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
...Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through Roman streets on his own. They call him "Johnnie Walker...
Whether or not Ayub is the man for Pakistan, the revolt in Pakistan raises a further question: Is Democracy the method for the underdeveloped countries of southern Asia? Those who believe with Nehru that Democracy can meet the challenge of Communist China, may lend a readier ear to pleas that the United States devote a larger part of its foreign aid to economic rather than military projects. Policies of primarily military aid in underdeveloped countries may, indeed, foster and maintain the military dictatorships that are now appearing...
...Berber tribes of the interior were no readier to accept French authority than that of the Dey. Rallying behind AbdelKader, the handsome, 25-year-old son of a holy man, they launched a jihad (holy war) to expel the infidel. French General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, a veteran of Napoleon's Spanish campaign, where the word guerrilla was invented, responded with a tactic called the razzia -a swift, merciless strike at a native village, sparing nothing and nobody. In one razzia, in 1845, nearly 500 Algerian men, women and children were asphyxiated by fires lit at the mouth...