Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought his telephone lines were being tapped: he was sure that Federal authorities were plotting to arrest him; the situation in Little Rock "grows more explosive by the hour." To ward off all invaders, Orval Faubus de ployed his militia around his white-pillared executive mansion, disappeared from public view like a feudal baron under siege...
...common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
...revealed himself as a man still trying to squeeze free from his own complicity in Stalin's crimes, while well aware that he had gone too far in his sensational, weepy indictment of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress. What is needed now, said Khrushchev, is a balanced view on Stalin, "the positive side which we support and highly value and the negative side which we criticize and condemn." Stalin, he said, had to act in "an atmosphere of fierce struggle against class enemies and their agents in the party . . . Stalin did what was necessary. We were sincere...
...Jackson County, Mo., Harry S. Truman won his audience when he told schoolteachers that "Lazy parents, baby sitters and a shortage of switches have made the teacher's role a hard one and have made our educational system a coddling process." Taking the view that gentlemen of the old schools had more chance to become gentlemen, and schooled, he recalled that his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner...
...living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath in which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...