Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...
Since our children and the influences that they are exposed to are important, we must look for ulterior motives in those who sympathize with a school employee who refuses to take Illinois' anti-Communist oath of allegiance to state and nation...
...various unofficial accounts of this meeting heard round the world last week are all from Communist sources. They may be generally correct, but they have one ulterior purpose: to convince the non-Communist world, inside and outside Russia, that a genuine democratic committee fight can be staged in destalinized Moscow and put to a vote. Undoubtedly there was a .heated Presidium meeting, followed by a meeting of the Central Committee, which lasted far beyond normal duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would...
...even the reader who has no ulterior motives often turns to the perceptive critic, when the critic can see, and he cannot. Searching like Diogenes, he tries to use the critic for a light. Unfortunately, his instrument is as unsuitable as Diogenes', which dooms them both to failure. And he would rather not live in a barrel...
...What if these governments, like Gomulka's in Poland, are Communist? The U.S. does not "condi tion economic ties between us upon the adoption by these countries of any particular form of society." He also had a message meant to be digested in Moscow: "The U.S. has no ulterior purpose in desiring the independence of the satellite countries . . . We do not look upon these nations as potential military allies. We see them as friends, and as part of a new and friendly and no longer divided Europe...