Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their action put an added strain on the creaking NATO structure. The Russians reason that NATO was welded together by fear. Reduce the fear, and the alliance may yet fall apart...
...that basic elements in the Soviet and British outlook are mutually and permanently repellent. They were present in the McCarthy era when Americans were being told to be on guard against a sellout by the British to the Communists. They would be present the next time a similar strain fell on the Anglo-American relationship-and the time after that...
Khrushchev noticed something going on, asked the interpreter to tell him what Brown had said to his son. When he understood, Khrushchev flushed and said: "Interference in family affairs is even worse than interference in another country's internal affairs." Abruptly, the pleasant little dinner became taut with strain...
Next Reform. The Ibáñez reforms are not free from peril, though considerably less frightening than the destructive inflation cycle. The first effect of freeing the peso was to devalue it (from the official rate of 300 per dollar to a current 460). That puts heavy strain on the ceiling prices of imported goods, and the whole program is in deep trouble if price ceilings give way. Sure that they will, Labor Federation Leader Clotario Blest, blinking tired eyes in the sunny patio of Santiago's Central Jail, says: "The heart of the matter is that only...
Somewhere behind this nightmare phantasmagoria of publicity and exploitation, however, two human beings were approaching a solemn moment in which each planned to pledge his life to the other. In the maelstrom of confused protocol and embattled public relations, the strain of that moment was beginning to show on each. Rainier fidgeted nervously during the 16-minute civil ceremony in the palace throne room that made them man and wife in the eyes of Monaco law. By the following day, the wear and tear on his fiancée was beginning to show in telltale circles beneath her coolly beautiful...