Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's clues, for the deduction-minded, were few. Said Dr. Kamin: "He's aggressive in his convalescence. He's perking up since he came to Florida. He stays in the pool a little longer each day." Said one of his closest friends: "If he can stand on two feet, he's going to be at the foreign ministers' conference at Geneva...
Midway in the NATO Council meeting in Washington, the delegates stopped to send a message of friendship and sympathy to the man who seemed to personify the spirit of the week's unified stand against Communist threats: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But Dulles needed sympathy less last week, perhaps, than at any time since he turned into Walter Reed Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary...
...slightest idea who is to be called, but we can read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators will be put on the stand and will make statements without any proof. These statements become part of the record, but often they are nothing more than the investigator's belief. There is no effective rebuttal. The effect is that some witnesses who might testify if they got a fairer chance take the Fifth Amendment...
Seaton's Stand. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton helped mightily to promote statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. But during Alaska's own election campaigns. Seaton's razzle-dazzle campaigning got a cool reception, largely because he was regarded as the voice of the federal "absentee landlord" in Washington. Despite his lavish promises of Republican federal help, Alaska's Democrats rolled up a big victory. Result: "Landlord"' Seaton will electioneer in low key-and only if invited-in the campaign for the June primaries now beginning in Hawaii...
Even as things now stand, Iraq marks a major Russian advance in the cold war. With the influence it now wields in Baghdad, the U.S.S.R. has achieved the major role it has so long sought in Middle Eastern affairs. But with that new status, Moscow has also acquired new problems. If the U.S.S.R. decides to push ahead with an attempt to establish an undisguised People's Democracy in Iraq, the Soviets must assume that they will alienate all other Arab nations, inherit the scapegoat position of "imperialist oppressors" that the Western powers have long occupied in Middle Eastern minds...