Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time) that first stripped the camouflage off F.D.R.'s Supreme Court packing bill and led the fight against it. Its internationalist editorials impressed Roosevelt into recommending them to press conferences as insights into his foreign policy.* Post editorials helped to assure civilian control of atomic energy, and to trigger emergency operations that spared Europe a famine in 1945-46. One gave Arkansas Senator Fulbright the idea for the exchange scholarships that bear his name. The Post's latest crusade has been to build a fire under the clean elections bill now before the Senate with 85 Senators...
...both the free nations and the Soviet bloc should seek to ease the tension to some degree; to relieve the strain and precariousness of an extended, perhaps indefinite period of tacit hostility; and to create, if not amiable relations, at least a Cold Peace not poised upon a sensitive trigger. Improved East-West trade relations, especially in United States-Soviet commerce, would be a large step in this direction...
...Howe asserted, Kirk's position is clear and intolerable. "We have passed from Edmund Burke to Trigger Burke," he said...
Massive New Look. Specific reasons for concern were not difficult to find; they include precarious local crises that stretch from the trigger-happy situation between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East to France's evident inability to deal with her problems in North Africa and at home, from the increasing economic penetration by Communist China in Asia to Britain's recurring economic crisis (TIME, Feb. 27). But overriding and surrounding and worsening all of these local problems is the massive "new look" of Communist policy elaborately displayed in Moscow...
...wiping out a nest of Sioux, he stumbles upon toothsome Debra Paget and a papoose in the underbrush, and drags her back to camp to act as his cook. At this cavalier treatment, Debra smolders and Granger burns, but all Taylor does is sneer and menacingly crook his itchy trigger finger. However, the showdown must be deferred, since...