Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan last week, wires trailing, and looking like a man from Mars caught on some cosmic fishing tackle, Columbia's Nyles Ayres piled up an early lead in his favorite weapon. Later he dropped back to second, but Lions Captain Barry Pariser slashed his way to the saber championship, Ralph De Marco earned a fourth place with his foil and, when the last fencer had saluted his opponent, Columbia's swordsmen were the undisputed champs. Final score: Columbia 62, Cornell 57, Navy...
...Dulles, who had been accused of saber rattling with such phrases as "massive retaliation," found himself the target of other critics who accused him of speaking too softly about coexistence, particularly after the Chinese branded 13 imprisoned Americans as spies. Dulles' restraint in this case was deliberate, and resulted from his highly practical analysis of why the Reds made their announcement on the 13 prisoners. He was convinced that the Soviet and Chinese Communists were attempting to give the U.S. a diplomatic one-two punch: soft talk from Moscow and hard action from Peking...
...Paris, before the sound of Molotov's saber-rattling could reach French ears, the Assembly's powerful Foreign Affairs Committee took a vote. This was the formidable body that had doomed EDC, 24 to 18. Now, by a combination of ayes, nays and abstentions, it recommended ratification of German rearmament, by a majority of but one vote.*By this narrow margin, Mendes, man of close shaves, had got past another difficulty. Next week the Assembly itself will debate ratification...
...nine years, partitioned Trieste ticked like a time bomb at the head of the Adriatic, disturbing the air of Italian politics, setting Italians against Yugoslavs, stirring bloody riots and saber-rattling demonstrations. In 1948, disgusted with repeated Russian vetoes of every proposed neutral governor, the three Western powers renounced the Big Four plan to establish Trieste as a free territory under a U.N. governor and declared instead that the entire 285-square-mile coastal strip should be given to Italy. But when Tito broke with the Kremlin, the West deemed it expedient to renege on the promise to Italy. There...
...such compulsive dreamers, warnings from the U.S. became irritating saber-rattlings. Last week in the land of the U.S.'s strongest ally, the compulsive belief was the central political fact. And the trip of Clement Attlee and the seven Laborites was both the result of it and the chief encouragement...