Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negotiation." What touched off the talk of war was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's joltingly tough speech rejecting Western proposals for a foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, and his calculated insult to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Russia on an official peace-talking visit (see FOREIGN NEWS). In response to Khrushchev's "palpably intransigent attitude," said...
With a foreign ministers' conference apparently vetoed, would the U.S. be willing to go to a summit conference to talk with the Russians? Said the President: "I think it would be a very grave mistake . . . unless there was some kind of preparation so that the world could recognize the progress made...
...Cold War. Underlying the U.S.'s firmness was a conviction that, however tough he might talk, whatever steeliness he might display in brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev would not, at the showdown, risk global war. A war was on, but it was the old war of nerves...
...What we need to say, as American people, and say in unmistakable terms, is that we are right.We must tell the Russians why we cannot surrender Berlin. Let us not talk about standing firm, and then in mushy, soft words say that on some basis-somewhere, somehow-we will do something other than stand fast...
Officers of the University and M.I.T. conducted sessions on the measurement of financial need. Most of the participating colleges were small and unaccustomed to administering an extensive aid program, McDonald remarked. "The workshops attempted to give people with no experience a chance to talk with those who were familiar with the problem...