Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to thank TIME for giving its attention to the speech of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, protesting the unwelcome and unwise visit of Khrushchev to the U.S. [Aug. 24]. One speech by Senator Dodd is worth a dozen by the muddleheaded liberals who think we can compromise with evil and still keep our honor and our freedom...
...wrong if he tried," said a woman in London. "He's got goodness written all over him," said another. In West Germany a young gasoline-station attendant said, "Eisenhower's a nice guy," and added in instant association, "Americans are honest when they say they want peace and justice in the world...
Above all, last week, the President directed the new-found Western trust into his quest for relaxation of tensions with the Soviet Union. It was perhaps his most hazardous mission. Sometimes that quest sounded unclearly: "People want peace so much," said President Eisenhower on TV in London, "that governments had better get out of their way and let'em have it." More often the President emphasized that he was questing for peace based on principle and sure strength...
...Whether I want it or not, I've got it, growled House G.O.P. Leader Charles Halleck. What Indiana's Halleck was tossing between his thick political calluses was the hottest potato that the President of the U.S. had thrown him all session. The assignment: keep the House from overriding the President's veto of Congress' cherished $1.2 billion rivers and harbors bill (TIME, Sept. 7), a pork barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget...
...want to kiss your clank eat your boom...