Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about now is disengagement of U.S. forces out of Berlin, Germany and Central Europe-a longstanding Soviet objective...
...Europe and in the U.S. separated by the Atlantic Ocean . . . Khrushchev says, 'This is a matter on which a compromise is possible. I don't have to cut all your throats; I only need to cut a half of your throat.' This is the kind of thing into which we are being led by the incredible view that any sort of negotiation is good per se." In only one area, said Acheson, can negotiation really benefit the West: hardheaded discussion of disarmament that aims toward shortening the offensive "reach," both nuclear and conventional, of the nations...
...items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like a railroad station," as a neighbor put it, and the prints could have belonged to any of numerous visitors. One thing seemed certain to the Clutters' friends and neighbors: so methodical a crime could not have been committed by strangers who came upon the farm by chance. "When this is cleared up," said Clutter's brother. "I'll wager it was someone from within ten miles of where...
This was the same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
...Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business-but it takes time for this sort of thing to sink...