Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of the new policies is far from completely mapped. But from the hints of direction, it is clear that the U.S. is well on the way to fulfilling a seemingly casual remark that the President made to the newspaper editors after his formal speech: "It is necessary that we find better, more effective ways of keeping ourselves in tune with the world's needs...
...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
...midwinter the young Russians were tracked down in Manhattan by the Communist secret police. The Communists pleaded, threatened and produced phony letters from home. "This letter was supposed to be from my mother." one of the Russians remarked scornfully, "but she can't write." Watchful U.S. agents felt sure that all the Russians would hold out, reported one sailor's remark about the current destalinization campaign: "Siberia is still Siberia." But days later that sailor and four of his comrades were gone; four stayed on in the U.S. in seclusion, but the U.S. knew that at least...
...technically in the Egyptian army), struck hardest in the coastal plain, always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never was a U.S. diplomat's remark more terrifyingly apt: "Every Israeli sleeps within 20 miles of an Arab knife...
...need for France to give such a reassurance stems partly from the kind of remark made recently by Socialist Pineau: "We want to remain a link between the blocs, but without renouncing our friendships." To become a link between East and West, said Mollet, correcting his Foreign Minister, France would have to "cease to belong to the West...