Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many bitter years since Yalta, it seems there are those who still do not fully realize that each successful Communist aggression breeds another. If the Chinese Communist regime seizes the smaller Nationalist isles, either by invasion or negotiated retreat, its next step will be Formosa, then all Southeast Asia, then India...
...seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese Nationalist firmness. In Tokyo General Laurence S. Kuter, Pacific Air Forces commander, reviewing gun-camera pictures of Chinese Nationalist jet victories,*said flatly that Red China had taken "a beating...
Ailing with the tremors of Parkinson's disease, Harold Burton decided that since he had reached the full-pay-retirement age of 70, he would step down. In his $35,000-a-year retirement, he plans to do some writing on Supreme Court history, hopes that "the Chief Justice may have jobs for me where I can help...
Along with Mirza, the army's commander in chief, General Mohammed Ayub Khan (another Sandhurst man), had long ago concluded that the army would have to step in. Dressed casually in white cotton slacks, brown loafers, green diamond-pattern socks, the tails of his tan-striped sports shirt hanging out, General Ayub Khan calmly explained: "We both came to the conclusion that the country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited...
...contemporary salesmen of comfortable panaceas, referring to them disparagingly as "Pollyannas of easy optimism." For his salvation from the imminent deluge, Sorokin urges, modern man must look neither to religious conversion ("mainly a cheap self-gratification for psycho-neurotics"), nor to psychoanalysis ("please regard it as the last step before suicide"), nor to changes in political leadership ("but who is going to guard the Guardians?"). The main channels are blocked. To what can man turn...