Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the U.N. meeting there was genuine high-level concern in Washington that Canada might not support the U.S. resolution to postpone for another year U.N. debate on Red China's admission. Wisely, Washington applied no pressure. Great Britain, however, did, arguing that Western unity was at stake...
...still be too big for the new rule to make a difference. Last week, the whole thing was academic to Oklahoma, which toyed with all combinations made three of five kicks, ran once for two points, failed to pass for two more, in smothering West Virginia 47-14 to stake a claim to the nation's No. 1 rating...
Only in the diplomatic silences of Warsaw was there a muffling of the decibels of denunciation. There the U.S. and Red China bargained at the ambassadorial level (see below), with the peace of Asia and, quite possibly, the world at stake...
...with grievous loss of Western prestige and military manpower, but which the West could not rescue without using disproportionate force. But the Communists would be making a grievous mistake if they did not also recognize the difference between Dienbienphu and Quemoy: at Dienbienphu U.S. prestige was not directly at stake; at Quemoy it is. This is the vital difference...
...another, good business or bad, the real carnies always stick with their show. There is nowhere else to go. When a man's show folds, he will be back next season, owner of one ride, maybe, or a hanky-pank, but working for a stake that will let him open his own again. And each year it is getting harder...