Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within the traditional ideal of American foreign policy, namely, the deep belief that nations should be left independent, free to choose their own routes to progress. This goal, originally pronounced most explicitly (if a little cynically) in the Open Door policy toward China, has become through Acheson the main weapon against Soviet imperialism. Its moral force and it practical advantages seem lost on those who insist that the free world in exchange for United States money mold itself in the United States' die. They were not lost on Acheson, and thus a proven tradition was maintained...
...political thinking to equal the incredible advance which the scientists have produced for him in his ability to destroy fellow men." This is a remarkable statement from a man in Finletter's position as the civilian chief of the military arm charged with responsibility for delivering the nuclear weapon on an enemy in case of war. Who is supposed to think through the "political and military implications" of the H-bomb? Not the public, which heard officially of the H-bomb only last week...
Grace Vanderbilt's most potent social weapon was the cultivation of European royalty, a technique which earned her the nickname "Kingfisher." Her first great coup occurred in 1902, when by request of Kaiser Wilhelm II she was hostess to Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant...
...George Jessel originated the part of the jazz singer on the stage in 1925. * Author Guareschi, who uses humor as a political weapon in combating Communism, has expressed dissatisfaction with the movie version of his book because the film Peppone turns out to be too nice a fellow. Guareschi is writing a screen sequel which he promises will embody a stronger anti-Communist message...
CIVIL RIGHTS. The hot civil rights question may come up on the first day. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey is planning to call for a new set of rules outlawing the filibuster, the Southern Democrats' chief weapon in dry-docking civil rights legislation...