Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOPIC...
...topic of the Parley at the Summit will be disarmament-symbol of the worldwide yearning for peace...
Disarmament will be Eisenhower's topic, since it is the U.S. that carries the heaviest arms burden (particularly in nuclear development). The State Department is convinced that Russia, essentially a poor nation, cannot keep up with the ever-increasing ante in the nuclear weapons game. Says State: if U.S. spending for defense were at the same rate as Russia's, considering the huge gap between the Soviet and U.S. economies, it would amount to $150 billion per year-almost four times the current U.S. rate. The U.S. wants first to probe the genuineness of the Russian desire...
...return a visit paid him last winter by Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, a man even more skilled at walking the tightrope of neutralism. There was no real business to be transacted between them, but at least the two could compare notes and talk about their favorite topic-advantageous coexistence...
...altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...