Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had sometimes tended to obscure that basic nature. For months U.S. policy had been influenced by the imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost of the lives of brave men. Said Secretary of State Dulles: "I still think it will be a little time before there is a summit conference, if indeed there...
Like most slaps in the face, this one promised to create difficulties for the slapper. It calculatedly opened the breach wider between Russia and Yugoslavia than it had been since the Cominform excommunication of Tito in 1948. It all but destroyed prospects for an early summit meeting. (Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim...
...major radio and TV speech, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week called for a "meeting on the highest political level"-a hemisphere summit talk-to solve Latin America's "disease of underdevelopment." He dubbed the task of developing Latin America "Operation Pan American," and in effect appealed for a Marshall Plan...
Until now the U.S. has been lukewarm to the idea of Pan American summit talks. Washington would prefer a meeting of foreign ministers for hard conference work, topping that meeting off with a symbolic gathering of Presidents afterward. The U.S. view is widely understood; Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares resigned last week in protest over Kubitschek's call for presidential talks...
...waiter in the Men's Residence dining hall . . . Your success up to that point and since may be cred ited not only to the beckoning opportunities which the American way of life provides but also to the dynamic quality of personal development which strives for the summit of a chosen career." Stevens Institute of Technology Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, developer of the atomic sub marine Sc.D...