Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That said, he turned to a basic principle of the Anglo-American alliance-collective security-that is popular in Britain, and pointedly applied it to a crisis that is not. "The free world," said Nixon, "could render no greater disservice to the cause of peace than to fail to stand firm as we have in the Formosa Strait against the use of aggressive force...
...Soviet note was careful not to denounce the 1945 Potsdam agreement outright. In the face of the determinedly solid Allied resolve to stand fast in Berlin, it included another amendment that let out a lot of the heat that Khrushchev had pumped into his crisis. The Soviet ambassador in Bonn had talked jauntily about Soviet troops leaving Berlin before Christmas. Russia now promised to make no change in Berlin for six months...
...member feels something akin to the skier's togetherness, knowing that he is huddled in the warm confines of the boathouse, that so long as the Charles flows there will always be a Harvard crew, and that when the shells again take to the river next spring, people will stand on the banks in the sunlight and cheer...
...International Affairs spoke on "The Expectations of Limited War" at the Air Force R.O.T.C. unit's annual Christmas dinner last night. He sharply criticized the present administration's foreign policy doctrines and expressed the need for a more positive attitude toward Russia to replace our current "passive and apologetic" stand...
...island) claimed the right of self-determination, which everybody knew would mean eventual "enosis"--union with Greece. Not surprisingly, the Athens government supported this claim. Britain, on the other hand, was reluctant to surrender control of the island--because of its military importance, she said. Also behind the British stand, one suspects, was an unexpressed feeling that her colonial world was crumbling on all sides, and that somewhere the business had to be stopped...