Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happiness requires a certain logical leap, and this year we just don't seem to be able to get our feet off the frosty ground. This inability to achieve happiness adds to our misery, so we're not very happy about the entire situation...
...years when reindeer had velvet noses and every Santa Claus had a soft and downy beard. There were the times gone by when candy canes weren't sticky and decorations never fell from the Christmas tree. But that was a long time ago. For now the Salvation Army seems a depressing crew and the snow flakes seem to make the world a muddy mess rather than a winter wonderland. And it seems all too apparent, nowadays, that reindeer have foul breath and that nine out of ten Santas are phony while the other guy isn't a member...
...climate at Paris this week can grow considerably colder unless the American delegation becomes considerably warmer. The representatives of the U.S., from page-boy to President, seem to have brought their anti-Soviet smugness with them into the conference room...
...face of recent Russian advances, technological and propagandistic, our allies are less ready than ever to countenance our uncompromising and bellicose attitude. They are no longer convinced that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. The President's heroic epithets and titanic cliches in the Palais de Chaillot seem to be falling on skeptical and impatient ears...
...appears that Mr. Stevenson's moderate and yielding policy has been left at home with its author. But now more than ever before America must at least seem willing to listen to opposing arguments and the advocates of diplomatic arbitration. Regardless of our subsequent action, we must restore our allies' confidence by adopting a frank and temperate posture before them...