Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I was a boy," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it was thought we could live our lives on a little piece of ground in the West, and the older folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt...
Smarting under this rebuff, Adenauer proclaimed his intention to run for the presidency himself, and all Germany applauded his solution. Adenauer thought that the ceremonial job might be converted into a post as prestigious as that occupied in France by his friend Charles de Gaulle, but after prolonged study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage...
...scene, less alarmed, have convinced themselves that Lee's bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought-as well as a mob orator who shouts to his barefoot followers: "It's us against the white men." A Singapore-born Chinese like his wealthy father and grandfather before him, he rabble-rouses more fluently in English than in Chinese, which he only began to learn two years...
...issues were clearly drawn in last week's election for 127 seats in the upper house of the Japanese Diet. Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who some U.S. worrywarts once thought would prove anti-American) campaigned by urging closer ties with the U.S. The rival Socialists, looking for somewhere else to go, demanded abrogation of the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact and firm alliance with Red China and the Soviet Union. When the votes were in, Premier Kishi had won a clear victory, capturing 71 of the contested seats to 38 for the Socialists. The Socialists lost nearly a million votes...
...rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immortal, and by Whose will good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...