Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes, a man who does not scare easily, took Nuri seriously enough to fly off to Baghdad for a hasty conference with Iraq's influential Crown Prince Abdul Illah; on his return, he looked anything but happy. The U.S. quietly withdrew an advance text of Dulles' opening speech. Plainly, the Baghdad powers had reached a crossroads of confidence, would not be content with the platitudes of sympathy and support...
...President discovered early in the game that he was hiring no sycophantic flack: Hagerty got stubborn about some since-forgotten point of press policy, and the Eisenhower temper flashed. After several minutes of colorful language, Ike paused for breath, regarded the uncowed Hagerty. Said he: "You don't scare very easily...
...your cover doesn't scare me. He's not omniscient. His picture reveals the failure of even Russia to solve a major scientific problem: baldness...
...Last week came the first blast. Louisiana's Congressman Otto E. Passman, Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid, charged that a State Department report on how Russia is spending $1.9 billion worth of foreign aid in underdeveloped nations (see FOREIGN NEWS) was released to scare Congress into upping...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...