Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done so on the basis of a fatally naive and condescending assumption. Sublimely convinced that no diplomats in the world are as smooth as British diplomats, Macmillan's advisers seriously thought that Khrushchev might somehow be persuaded, three months before a showdown date he himself had set, to take the urgency out of a crisis Khrushchev had deliberately provoked to try the free world's nerve...
...find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
...India. He has stilled the strident propaganda of the country's radios, last month became the first Pakistani leader to attend the Indian High Commission's Republic Day celebration in Karachi. After a recent border incident he said mildly: "If our chaps are at fault, we will take action against them...
...Peking's planners are able to meet this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...
...China and admission to the U.N. (TIME, Dec. 1) In Hartford, Conn, last week, before a meeting of the policymaking General Board, National Council President Dr. Edwin T. (for Theodore) Dahlberg stiffly rose to answer the critics. Actually he sidestepped them by defending the church's right to take a stand on international issues, rather than specifically commenting on the China stand. Said he: "The church must in a sense function as the conscience of the nation. We are Biblically authorized to do this. It was the vigorous pronouncements Jesus made on controversial matters that sent...