Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof that time was running out. what could the U.S. do? One possible course of action was quickly suggested at the United Nations by U.S. delegate Alexander Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. New soundings should be taken, he said, on the chances of negotiating a workable scheme of international atomic control with the Russians. Wiley's proposal merited cool-headed consideration. One reason: no one has yet disproved the theory that the Russians, faced with imminent cracks behind their Iron Curtain, may be looking for a long cold-war breathing spell...
Chris Herter's opportunity is, perhaps, greater than that of any of his illustrious predecessors. It is Herter's good fortune to be presiding over the Commonwealth at a period when statehouses are once again rising in importance and esteem in the political scheme of things. To the Eisenhower Administration decentralization of government is an article of faith. But decentralization can be successful only if governors, among others, make the most of the chance to act intelligently in their own right. In such outlying leadership lies not only political opportunity for the Republicans but strength...
Vital India. Such is the spacious plan of Pearl Buck's new novel, which, like most of her works, coolly takes a continent for its province. But her theme is even wider than her scheme-so wide, in act, that better novelists would find it hard to cover. Intricate and twofold, it ries on the one hand to show the great gap that divides American and Indian understanding and, on the other, how religious zeal and hard experience affect not only this gap, but the Americans and Indians who try to bridge...
...American citizen and taxpayer, 1 am unalterably opposed to any scheme that circumvents the McCarran-Walter bill for the economic convenience of 240,000 Europeans of unknown integrity...
...vacuum of exile during World War II, the governments of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg spent much of their time working out plans for the happy day of liberation. Their most ambitious scheme was for economic union: interstate free trade, a common tariff and excise, a free exchange of workers. The beginnings proved more modest: after liberation came a customs union with a catchy name, Benelux, and talk of how the three nations would prove "an example of unity in a divided world...