Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added, however, that "Mr. Killian would not have accepted the post if he were not assured of strong support...
...proposals themselves are a step in the right direction but, unless subsequent definition gives the new appointees more independence and support, they will fall into the tangle of interservice rivalry and irrational economizing which has already put us behind. Killian will need full Presidential backing without which his plans would succumb to inevitable Pentagon opposition...
...said that forwards cannot sustain sharp, driving attacks without halfback support, nor can fullbacks adequately protect a goalie without the services of halfbacks as the first line of defense against an opposing forward line...
However, according to Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, "a man of Mr. Killian's stature would not have accepted the post if he were not assured of strong support...
Discussing British public opinion at the time of the Anglo-French invasion of Suez last year, which he described as "a national aberration" on the part of England, Nicholas mentioned the brief flare-up of anti-U.N. feeling. He emphasized that the British now support the U.N. as strongly as they had before the crisis, and that British relations within the United Nations were, surprisingly, as friendly as ever...