Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Khrushchev that would shut U.S. allies off from taking part in whatever decision making might eventually result. "Harold," said the President, "I want you to know that I mean it when I say I have no intention of 'negotiating' with Khrushchev." Macmillan replied that his government understood this quite well and had perfect confidence...
Norwegian Date. New York's Rockefeller understood perfectly, accepted Bridges' statement graciously. But in visiting and posing for pictures with Styles Bridges, he had effectively made known his interest in the New Hampshire primary, served notice on New Hampshire
Pass the Ammunition. As a marines' marine, Shoup is not much of a speech-maker-but he has a way of making himself understood. His battle report from Tarawa was a classic: "Our casualties heavy. Enemy casualties unknown. Situation: we are winning." His view of orders received: "If we can read it, we can do it." When tapped to help establish the Marine Corps' Fiscal Division, he went into isolation for days, emerged with a staff study that impressed everyone. Asked how he did it, he told the story of a sculptor who carved an elephant without ever...
...mouse, in this case, is the ionosphere. Says Thaler: "We just don't know enough about the propagation of radio waves through the ionosphere. It is not well understood.'' Other scientists chipped in with equally cautious remarks. "It is not the greatest thing since beer," said one; and an M.I.T. researcher pointed out that "obvious countermeasures [radio jamming] could be used against it." But the Defense Department's careful-going Research Director Herbert York concedes that "the ionospheric backscatter principle is a sound one." Give him a year. Thaler predicted, and he hoped he could...
Tense and wide-eyed, the scores of officials, security guards and newsmen who were touring the exhibition with Nixon and Khrushchev clustered around the debaters. "I hope the Prime Minister has understood all the implications of what I said," Nixon went on. with an oblique reference to Berlin. "What I mean is that the moment we place either one of these powerful nations, through an ultimatum, in a position where it has no choice but to accept dictation or fight, then you are playing with the most destructive force in the world...