Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem," the policymaker continued, "is that there has been a letdown all over the world. It's a question whether the world has got back into the Munich mood, and the American people too. That's the big issue-whether the world is aroused enough to take a stand. That's what the Chinese and Soviets are taking advantage of. That's the big issue, not Quemoy and Matsu. In the last four years there has been a very marked growth in the quality of appeasement, the idea of not getting involved in other people...
...what to do now." Beakley admits: "We are back right where we started before we began convoying. They called our hand when they shelled the beach and got that LSM. The Chicoms' guns can and will blast anything on the beach until they are taken out. We could take them out and so could the Nationalists. But the decision to do so is a grave one and not for military...
...election after another after imposing unpopular austerity measures to correct Britain's creeping inflation, have now forged into first place in public-opinion polls as their policies of economic restraint have started to pay off. Amid Labor consternation, Tories began to call for a "snap election" that would take advantage of the government's new popularity. But Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who refused to panic in the time of Tory adversity, was no more to be hustled in prosperity. Last week he jauntily told a Conservative rally in Bromley: "I have no intention of advising a dissolution...
...might agree, thus shattering the Western front against U.N. recognition of the Reds. It is an open secret in Washington that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has pressed President Eisenhower for a softer policy toward Red China. The State Department was also jolted by Diefenbaker's hint that Canada might take the initiative to turn the Quemoy crisis over...
...singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...