Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This country happens to be the leader of the free world and the main proponent of democratic ideology. It faces the greatest task in its entire history: to contain the forces of Communism and to remain at the pinnacle of world power; yet, it receives only superficial and passive support from a great number of its citizens...
...next fiscal year's $81 billion budget, presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on next fiscal year's $41 billion defense budget. He took time out to reassure NATO's visiting Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of the U.S.'s strong support for NATO, to reassure the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Boss Vasily Emelyanov (see SCIENCE) of his hopes for a peaceful atomic future. He got a personal report from the State Department's Livingston Merchant, just back from Panama, on the troubles for the U.S. still simmering...
...well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
...intend, on an appropriate occasion," the President promised Democrat Humphrey, "to restate to the Congress my support for the elimination of this reservation. Elimination of this automatic reservation from our own declaration accepting compulsory jurisdiction would place the U.S. in a better position to urge other countries to agree to wider jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice...
Almost every scientist at the University enjoys some sort of financial support from outside agencies. For example, every professor and instructor in the Department of Chemistry save one receives government money for research, according to Ronald E. Vanelli '41, director of the Chemical Laboratories. This also holds in the Departments of Physics and Biology, where the amount of funds available for research has increased greatly...