Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief," the Manager said, "you can't be saying a Councilman has ulterior motives for bringing up problems in these meetings." Sullivan was busy gathering his notes and soon asked permission for another comment...
...Were funds received by McCarthy to fight Communism diverted to his personal use? 2) Did McCarthy use his position as a member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to obtain a $10,000 fee from the Lustron Corp.? 3) Were close associates and relatives of McCarthy used, for ulterior motives, to secrete financial transactions...
...There they go, every spring, from New York to Los Angeles: exhibitionists, polemicists, histrionic publicists, theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes, ulterior decorators, windbags and bigwigs and humbugs, men in love with stamps, men in love with steaks, men after millionaires'" widows, men with elephantiasis of the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from the BBC who speak as though they had the Elgin marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional Irishmen (very lepri-corny...
...Dulles made a direct statement of U.S. intentions in Asia. On Korea, he stressed two points: 1) the Communists can no longer count on their "privileged sanctuary" beyond the Yalu, if they attack Korea again; 2) knowing that the Communists like to use negotiation as "a cover for achieving ulterior purposes," the U.S. will not let the Korean peace talks drag on indefinitely...
...always felt guilty about using power (except, of course, in an economic way); suddenly they found themselves forced to rely on an ultimate form of power, the atom bomb, to preserve peace. Americans had thought of themselves as the "tutors of mankind in its pilgrimage to perfection," innocent of ulterior ambition or guile. Now they found themselves "condemned in a court of public opinion" by have-not nations, who regarded the virtuous prosperity of the U.S. as a sign of imperialism and international...