Word: unkept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legally, the French had a strong case against U.N. meddling in the affairs of "metropolitan France." Morally, they had an obligation to keep their unkept promises to the Algerians...
...plays the temperamental procuress with gratifying relish. Wonderfully French, Zsa Zsa Gabor sings and twitters her way through the role of Jane Avril, the toast of the Moulin Rouge. And Suzanne Flon, the woman who loves embittered Lautrec too late, is sadly appealing as one of the few unkept women in Paris...
Tempers Kept & Unkept. But the dispassionate air of inquiry had vanished. Partisan wrangle broke out. Republicans made their questions short speeches. Democrats retorted by producing past documents to show that the Republicans had rarely lifted a voice to protest U.S. policy steps when they were taken, and Connecticut's Brien McMahon, politicking for all he was worth, and joined by Maverick Republican Wayne Morse, demanded an investigation of the "China lobby."* Acheson coolly resisted most Democratic attempts to get him to concur in attacks on MacArthur or the Republicans...
...Advancing!" Like many a dictator before him, Mao tries to divert the minds of his people from his unkept promises by emphasizing "foreign encirclement." His press keeps up a din for the conquest of Formosa and Tibet...