Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's problem with Congress was partly of his own making, partly the result of inescapable circumstance. He is the nation's first President to be barred by the Constitution (23rd Amendment) from running again. Having earnestly tried to stand above party, he made one of his rare ventures into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without...
...Older on the Inside." With imperturbable informality, Mikoyan tried out his pitch first on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a go-minute, off-cuff State Department session, during which he once again, in reasonable tones, laid out Russia's unreasonable stand on a "free" Berlin, left behind a fresh memorandum carrying a near imperceptible sign of a willingness to negotiate...
...thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed in San Francisco, where huge mobs of pickets chased his taxiing airplane, and indeed swarmed to within lapel's reach, a shaken Mikoyan was ready to observe with a sniff that "in Russia we stand for freedom-not for hoodlums, but for freedom from hoodlums...
...Administration's fundamental failure has been its reluctance to face the hard fact that the space program must be essentially a military program, however it may be bossed from the top. President Eisenhower's high-minded resolve to dedicate outer space to "peaceful purposes" does not stand up well before the arguments that 1) peaceful purposes are an integral part of the psychological cold war, in which the U.S. is already suffering from running behind; 2) the possibilities of gigantic military advantage loom for the nation that first makes space its backyard. Reported the House Select Committee...
...larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when I would lie for days in a coma . . . My father gave several direct-line transfusions to me before he had to stop because he couldn't stand to lose more blood. Then he had to go searching for blood donors again...