Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Rock's Police Chief Eugene Smith [Aug. 24] deserves a better description than "tough cop," and my hat is off to him and the Little Rock city fathers and citizenry who gave him support in fighting the powerful pressures of a rabid tyrant...
...FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations for help. The U.S., in a stern statement, flatly charged "the Communist bloc" with intent to "foment and direct a rebellion within Laos," noted that the outbreak in Laos had followed conferences in Moscow and Peking, promised to support any "necessary" free world action...
With these charges ringing in his ears, Nehru had a meeting in New Delhi with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama, who gently but firmly insisted on taking his country's case to the United Nations even though Nehru's government refused to sponsor or support...
...that Ike could do little other than nod politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other matters likely to convince British voters that good old Harold was the man to support. In the Evening Standard next day, Randolph Churchill sourly commented: "It was a fascinating experience last night to see the Prime Minister on TV with his campaign manager...
Ikhnaton never entered a temple of Amon again. Turning against the priests, he withdrew their profitable monopoly in the Nubian gold fields and won powerful support by giving it to the army. With the help of a minor priest, he invented a sun-drenched theology based on the insignificant deity Aton, built a new city, Aketaten, and chiseled the name of Amon from every temple in the land...