Word: repelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is too much chasing after comfort, profits and riches," he thundered in the accents of an Old Testament patriarch. Israel, he proclaimed, was in danger. Israel's youth must gird itself, man new settlements along the threatened border, stand ready to repel the merciless Arab. Last October, at 70, he risked all on a bold and cunning "preventive war" to knock out Nasser's new, Soviet-supplied army...
...World and got the American Experiment on the way. "There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be ready to repel it." Then Arthur Radford, the quiet admiral, adds the postscript that is his life: "The more our country sweats in peace, the less it will bleed...
...world Communism: the U.S. would tolerate no Communist move into any part of the Middle East, and would fight, if necessary, to prevent it. President Eisenhower intends to 1) request standby authority from the newly convened 85th Congress to send U.S. forces to help any Middle Eastern nation repel Communist attack, 2) draft a new program of economic aid for the Middle East to build up its stability and anti-Communist potential. Congress will almost certainly approve the Eisenhower plan, and probably by joint resolution-just as it approved, and thus strengthened, the President's 1955 decision to defend...
...sterling assets. In a speech to students training to fight for an Egyptian Suez, Nasser jeered at the expropriated company as "an instrument of imperialism . . . formed by a number of French counts and unemployed Englishmen," and shouted that if the British tried to return, "we know how to repel pirates." Hours later, calming down a little, the government ordered the British cotton loaded again, and Nasser announced in ringing statesman's tones:"We are as ever determined to honor all our international obligations. Freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal is not affected in any degree...
...armaments are not the primary defense against Communism. The redefinition is a frank if belated acknowledgement that NATO can never hope to attain its original objective, to become a major deterrent force in Europe. It is a confession that NATO cannot be a military garrison which could contain and repel any sustained large-scale Soviet land attack Westward. No European army raised by the NATO countries within the limits of their economic and military capabilities could long stand up to an all-out Soviet march to the Channel...