Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany. They have been there for years, ruffling the sensitivities of statesmen and furnishing fodder for cartoonists. In the past they have concerned contributions to NATO, or arguments over colonialism or summitry or economic cooperation. But the alliance has stood for quite a while, and it remains steadfast. Today, the differences center on the problem of Germany and negotiations over Berlin...
...auto manufacturers, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther has always tried to divide and conquer. Historically, Reuther scored many of his best contractual gains by first breaking Ford, then using the Ford surrender terms as the basis to settle with the other companies. But in 1958, Ford stood steadfast in a united front with General Motors and Chrysler, and U.A.W members worked without a contract for almost four months until Reuther finally agreed to none-too-favorable terms. This year, searching for a more promising target than Ford, Reuther focused on up-and-coming American Motors Corp., whose crusading President...
Next week Rusk will fly to Paris for a foreign ministers' meeting to discuss what the West might be willing to concede in any negotiations over Berlin. Yet after Kennedy's steadfast stand, it was clear that there would be almost nothing to concede and not much more to negotiate...
...Soviet Union does succeed in its goal-world Communism-it will richly deserve it. The Communists have worked effectively and with steadfast determination in the extension of their ideology; they have fought for their beliefs. The U.S. has not pursued its interests with equal zeal. We need a strong President, and in Senator Goldwater there could...
Hook is probably best known to the layman through his writings on public affairs, in which his position is similarly steadfast and similarly directed against what he regards as the extremes: for more than a decade, he has championed liberal anti-Communism against both the political left and right. In his latest collection of essays, he turns from politics back to philosophy, offering finely reasoned argument coupled with a lucid style and humane tolerance. A great many readers will violently disagree with his Dewey-eyed "pragmatic naturalism," his belief that the scientific method is readily applicable to moral problems. Some...