Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell you," he concluded sorrowfully, "how much regret I feel about this, and I am quite sure that the U.S. will share that feeling. Goodbye and thank you." With that, the President turned, got his hat, and went out to his waiting car. Slumping grim-faced in the back seat, he said: "It is like losing a brother...
From this sure base Dulles faced up to his times with an unusual diplomatic consistency. His first battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side...
...Then, taking up a questionnaire formally delivered to him beforehand, he repeated again that he would not appoint an envoy to the Vatican. One bishop taxed him with the persecution of Protestants in Catholic Spain. "I deplore a loss of liberty under any circumstances," answered Kennedy. By now not sure what might lie in the bishops' minds, he felt it necessary to add, "I am opposed to forced conversions...
...suggests. It makes no sense when anti-fever drugs are being given, because their effect is to promote heat loss-which the bundling prevents. A moderate room temperature and light covering that allows the heat to escape are better. Often it is equally important and more effective to make sure that the feverish child gets plenty of liquids to make up what he loses by sweating...
There are some cases where a carefully chosen antifever drug is what the doctor should order after thorough diagnosis, Dr. Done concedes. But in general he agrees with Manhattan's late Physiologist Eugene F. Du Bois: "Fever is only a symptom, and we are not sure that it is an enemy. Perhaps it is a friend...