Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican platform, like almost everything else about the G.O.P. convention, was straight Eisenhower. Mild in its criticism of the Democrats, it pointed with pride to the achievements of the last 3½ years, and broad-brushed plans for the future. In only one respect did the Platform Committee turn down a strong presidential hint: instead of the short, concise statement he would have liked, Ike and the G.O.P. delegates got a document of 13,500 words, twice the length of the 1952 Republican platform. 1,500 words longer than the 1956 Democratic effort...
...soda every 24 hours, Desai within a week had lost 8½ Ibs. He was, announced the eight doctors who hovered over him, "extremely weak." At week's end, on the urging of 40 leading citizens of Ahmedabad, who assured him that the people would now listen with respect, Desai took his first nourishment in eight days-a glass of orange juice-and once again tried to make his speech. The leading citizens turned out to be sadly mistaken. While Desai spoke, a surly, milling crowd of 1,000 Gujaratis threw stones at the dais and interrupted him repeatedly...
...Suez Canal crisis echoed in a surge of discontent from tiny Panama (pop. 900,000). Miffed at not being invited to the London conference on Suez, the government of President Ricardo Arias issued a defiant communiqué notifying the world that "this republic will not consider herself obliged to respect any of the decisions or recommendations adopted by the conference.'' Panama should have been invited, said the communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo...
...poured $25.9 million in economic aid into Nasser's development program, helped him get the British out of their Canal Zone base, and sent Ambassador Henry Byroade, a West Pointer who could work closely and frankly with a fellow army man. "Egypt stands today in every respect with the West," smiled Nasser...
...this whole country in its absolute nakedness. We were free to see good and bad alike. We were not on any guided tours such as those that are given behind the Iron Curtain. In addition to the very great deal we have learned professionally, we have developed a. tremendous respect for this country...