Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressed group applied because it was "the thing to do." This is a widely held opinion, and thus a happy, mature one. A less rugged and better dressed group applied because it was "the thing to do," if not "the only thing to do." This is a somewhat different viewpoint from that of the former group, but it is nevertheless a highly acceptable...
Said the Hong Kong Standard: "This statement, if it genuinely reflects the viewpoint of the Liu-Peng faction, offers an explanation for their drastic turn against Mao. If they believe that the pursuit of Mao's policies would bring about the collapse of Communist rule in China, the need for self-preservation left them no alternative but to rise up against Mao and either force him to renounce his policy or else wrest control of the party from...
...kind of lawyer's undertaking at which Dulles excels. Pulling together 15 nations, varying in size and strategic viewpoint from the U.S. to Luxembourg, was in itself a formidable achievement. So many inquiring cables and so many meetings were necessary that while all this went on U.S. Delegate Harold E. Stassen was reduced to postponing London sessions from day to day, simply because the West had not yet agreed on what to say to the Russians. Finally President Eisenhower had sent Dulles flying to London...
...reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes the whole paper. For, as Washington Post and Times Herald readers found during the New York Central proxy fight, when Newshen Malvina Lindsay bought one share of railroad stock and covered the battle from the viewpoint of a woman shareholder, some of the liveliest stories to be had are tucked between the balance sheets...
Your July 8 Letters correspondent, Mr. Eugene B. Vest, asks to what extent non-smokers like himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...