Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This failure to pin an unmistakable ideological label on himself has damaged his standing with liberals and the Washington press corps, brought upon him accusations that he is empty of genuine convictions, a man with a grey flannel mind. Only last week Symington set out to contradict that judgment by canceling his scheduled speech at a state Democratic dinner in Little Rock, Ark. when he learned that Negroes present would be seated at segregated tables. It was quite a decision for a man who depends heavily on palatability to the South to help him capture the presidential nomination...
...York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller moved out to the tougher side of the Eisenhower Administration, argued on a TV show that the U.S. ought to resume nuclear testing-presumably on Dec. 31, the date President Eisenhower has set as the deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered...
...They called themselves "The 1959 Franco-American Students' Automobile Tour of Africa" ("What a mouthful," Donald wrote home. "The 'Franco-American' sounds like spaghetti, and the 'students' sounds academic, but it's the best we could come up with"). On July 4, they set forth in two small Citroëns loaded with camping gear...
...Gaulle's triumph was one in the eye for Harold Macmillan, who, in the heat of the recent British election campaign, airily proclaimed that the summit date would be set "within a few days." It was a setback for Ike, who had publicly expressed (as had Khrushchev) a preference for a summit before the end of this year. The quarrel over dates reflected a deeper difference among the Western allies: a disagreement over what summit talks could and should be expected to achieve...
...that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer lock on the Finnish economy, or at least a half nelson, by exacting such heavy reparations after World War II that the Finns, in order to pay them, had to set up industry for which Russia is the only real market...