Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound was safe for the moment, but after Christmas came another crisis. In a by-election for the supposedly safe Labor seat of Smethwick, Wilson's close friend and new Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker lost to a Tory. But Wilson was deaf to appeals that he hold a snap national election, arguing that this would undermine all that had been done to defend the pound. In effect, it would mean running out on the U.S. and the other allies who had come to Britain's aid. Wilson prevailed, and the assurance gained from the decision carried over...
Often it is difficult enough to report a simple event correctly. Halberstam relates how nearly every correspondent in Ndola, Rhodesia reported Hammarskjold's safe completion of the plane trip which killed...
...office safe, McCormack reminded the House, was a written agreement between himself and Johnson that outlined McCormack's responsibilities if Johnson became disabled. That agreement, he said, was not only "outside the law," but valueless as well, since "I could never have made the decision" to declare Johnson unfit. Added McCormack: "There are so many human considerations involved. For example, my motives might well be impugned. Also, there could be the feeling that I might be involved in a quest for personal power...
Woodrow Wilson's World War I pledge to "make the world safe for democracy" is nowadays often considered naive. President Kennedy spoke instead of "making the world safe for diversity." Yet the Wilsonian hope-which does not intend to impose democracy on anyone but only to create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient...
...maintain freedom than to endure the weight of tyranny," wrote Simón Bolivar. That is probably still true. But times and attitudes have changed immeasurably, and it is possible that in a modernizing, prospering world, there ultimately will be more people with more strength to keep their countries safe for democracy...