Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were warmups from Prince Philip and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (after Ike, said Mac, Nixon was "the next best thing"). Then Nixon spoke on winning "the victory of plenty over want." Khrushchev, he said, has called for an economic contest between systems. "I am sure that all of us would be delighted to accept the challenge. In such a contest no one could really lose . . . We need to apply in this field the same determination, willingness, and cooperation which enabled us to build the military strength which deters aggression today...
...Soviet note, with a spurious mildness and plausibility, set out to court every color of German or European political opinion. ''Millions of Englishmen cannot forget the tragic lot of Coventry," or the Czechs, Lidice. Could the West be sure a rearmed West Germany "will not attack its present partners again?" Khrushchev's underlying theme was that he rejects German reunification. The Communists are there to stay in East Germany (see below), and the only kind of reunification that can be hoped for is a confederation...
...Gaulle, whose ambitions are more French than European, had made sure that the Common Market nations would present a united front in future negotiations with Britain. And by strengthening the bonds between France and Germany, he had brought France appreciably closer to equality with Britain and the U.S. in NATO councils. For while France alone might not be able to speak with the voice of a major power, France backed up by West Germany could scarcely be ignored...
...really like science?" the professor asked, when Selbourne visited him. "You fellows are so obsessed with your 'duty to the masses' that you never think of yourselves. You don't realize that you can serve your countrymen best by doing what you like. Are you sure you like to do science best...
...said that he was not sure whether to take a pessimistic view of this lack of action "simply because the Faculty and the CEP couldn't think of anything to do about it," or whether he should be optimistic because the Faculty "abandoned the attempt and gave its blessings in principle to a suggestion from...