Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sliced the Administration's last-ditch request by more than half a billion to authorize a foreign-aid program of $3.9 billion for this year. Now in the second go-around it was about to vote the hard cash in an appropriation bill and was flirting with a tough $3.6 billion, recommended by its Appropriations Committee. Things looked so bad, explained Martin, that pushing for more might result in less. Far better to take the $3.6 billion, trust the Senate to raise the ante, and then try the House with a compromise...
...free Morocco as the first U.S. ambassador: Cavendish Welles Cannon, 61, onetime schoolteacher, longtime Foreign Service careerman and specialist on the Balkans and Middle East, since 1953 U.S. Ambassador to Greece. Shy, hard-working Cavendish Cannon will have plenty to do at Rabat. In prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western Baghdad Pact. State is not passing out advice...
Last week, as a three-man French Communist delegation returned from a visit to the Kremlin, the new line was laid down for this week's congress in Le Havre: the French Communist Party was going to go right on being tough. "A few isolated voices in our own ranks," thundered Maurice Thorez, "have echoed enemy noises. Some have taken opportunist positions, become liquidators, and even repeated the worst lies of our adversaries." Stalin should not be castigated too severely, explained L'Humanité Boss Etienne Fajon, one of the Moscow pilgrims, for he had only "used unworthy...
...series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home, he wars with his besotted father (Harold J. Stone); abroad, he talks with his fists...
...Western journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...