Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe that the Marshall Plan won sturdy bipartisan support. "Without the Herter committee's groundwork," said a top Washington...
Professional Polish. Even though he had the added job of running the Administration-wide Operations Control Board, Herter began feeling restless about having, as he saw it, too small a role in State Department decisionmaking. When the gossip about Herter's frustration broke out in the papers, Dulles began gradually turning over to Herter some broad sectors of responsibility: congressional relations, inter-American affairs, the Middle East, nuclear-test-ban negotiations. Even in these sectors, Dulles and the President still made the top-level decisions (sending troops to Lebanon, suspending U.S. nuclear tests for one year), but Herter handled...
...pundits who had been hailing the rising presidential prospects of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller suddenly saw Vice President Nixon's future with new clarity. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout: "It is hard to imagine a better springboard for a presidential candidacy...
...University of Texas he got a master's degree in petroleum engineering, found an American wife, and then joined the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. at Dhahran. "I was the first Arab to penetrate into the tight Aramco compound," he said last week, "and I never saw such narrow people." American matrons took his wife aside and reproved her for marrying an Arab. Says Tariki bitterly: "It was a perfect case of an Arab being a stranger in his own country." For "purely personal reasons having nothing to do with nationality," Tariki's marriage broke...
...swim," Georgie said, sulking. "Besides, I saw an egg in the water...