Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential leadership. In the nation's first Sputnik uneasiness, the President planned a series of five TV talks to tell the people where the U.S. stood and what it had to do. When illness hit, Ike had made only two of the speeches. The third, an appeal for support of the Administration's foreign aid program, was delivered in part by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, subbing for the ailing President. But the appeal, delivered well but secondhand, got snowed under in the blizzard of news about Ike's illness. In speechmaking as in policymaking, members...
...proportion of Moslems killed by those who claim they are fighting on behalf of the Algerian people is, therefore, approximately seven Moslems to one European. If any conclusion is to be drawn from these figures, it is that the rebellion does not enjoy spontaneous support from Moslems. The F.L.N. relies more on totalitarian methods than the support it might get from public opinion...
...rebels talk and bicker incessantly. But they dig deep to support the cause, and they constantly risk their lives and fortunes for a single, basic political goal: return of constitutional government, which Batista disrupted by his 1952 army coup, staged just 82 days before a presidentia1 election that he seemed certain to lose. "This," they insist, "is not a social revolution...
Citing the inadequacy of the federal system of checks and balances, he noted that executive appointment, legislative confirmation, and impeachment powers were the only controls over the judiciary. He clearly implied that he might support the latter course, and commented, "I'm not sure that the lower house would institute impeachment...
Yarrow graduated from Dartmouth in 1955 and has interrupted studying philosophy to try the cafe trade. After working in coffee houses in New York, he decided to try one in Cambridge. "This community should be able to support several coffee houses. I want to dispel the coffee house mystique; a coffee house is merely a place for good coffee and conversation. While the coffee house itself is not indigenous to America, there is good reason for its emergence here as a synthesis of good culture, painting and coffee...