Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality of executive drive is a tough one to merchandise from a political platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind up in the driver's seat by the time the Democratic Convention has ended...
Noisy Uproar. Indians, who had long dismissed such notions as cold war fantasies, were alarmed, and never had they been so outspoken over the see-no-evil policies of Jawaharlal Nehru. Socialists marched on the Prime Minister's residence to demand stronger action, and the All-India Students' Congress called for mass demonstrations this week to mark "Throw Back the Aggressors Day"; other youths sought volunteers to man a "Himalayan Border Defense Organization." In London, Indian students inquired about returning home for military conscription. Even many Indian Communists were openly criticizing China's troublemaking...
Grumbled Mayor Franzil: "Trieste, of course, is a city close to all Italian hearts, and Roman politicians are so moved when they come here that their eyes fill with tears. Maybe that's why they can't see our problems...
...Asked whether Russo-Finnish relations would be hurt if the Finns should join their British and Scandinavian trading partners in the proposed Western "Outer Seven" bloc, Mikoyan returned a wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take steps, of course, to see that Finland's interests are not hurt in the building of such blocs. In the Soviet Union, we are opposed to such blocs." Weighing their economic livelihood against their political existence in the way that they must do almost every day of their lives, Finns said just as warily...
...their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...