Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Oct. 6 "A Stand on Principle" was most absurd. When you try to rationalize that Mr. Dulles is right, then I think it is time something should be said about principles. Why is it, if you believe in the American Way of Life (I presume that this is synonymous with democracy), that you recognize Chiang? If you recognize Communist Russia's government, why not recognize Communist China's government...
...mentioned in your Oct. 13 issue that Gloria, wife of Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones, was a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. Also, from 1949 to 1951 she was an Arthur Murray teacher...
...attack is made on the foreign policy of the U.S. it should be answered. For the President of the U.S. this, I think, is a proper position. But I will say this also-that for us who have the responsibility of carrying the weight of this campaign, to stand by and to allow our policies to be attacked with impunity by our opponents without reply would lead to inevitable defeat . . . One of the reasons the Republican Party is in trouble today is because, over the past two years particularly, we have allowed people to criticize our policies and we have...
Spreading the Word. Newcomer Chamberlain found that voting with his district was not nearly as easy as it sounded. Capitol Hill is 500 miles from Lansing, Mich.; the political stand that appears perfectly obvious in Washington may be twisted completely out of shape by the Sixth District's crosscurrents. It was up to Chamberlain to assess correctly the interests of his district on all the hundreds of issues coming up in the House...
...Armor. The time had come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of the chief of government, we quit." Undeterred, the civilian members of the committee called for a general strike against De Gaulle's directive...