Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations with Khrushchev-the summit meeting, Eisenhower's visit to Russia, or whatever-should turn into trouble, or even into increased tension between the U.S.S.R. and the West, the position taken by Dean Acheson would become a valuable platform for a Democrat to stand...
McNichols fought Brown's endorsement plan at heated, late-at-night hotel suite talks, again at Brown's breakfast. The West, McNichols argued, should form a solid Democratic front on regional issues such as reclamation, but not on a candidate. When Brown saw that his bloc would not be a bloc, he backed down, retreated to the position that agreement on issues was all he had wanted anyhow, thereby escaped the public stigma of failure in his effort for endorsement...
...West, Khrushchev's 13-day tour of the U.S. had produced an indefinable relaxation of mood. None of the causes of conflict had really been removed, but somehow everybody seemed to feel better. Campaigning in Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan jauntily announced that "everybody is agreed" to a summit meeting and that everything seems to be clear except fixing "the date and the place and the people." And on a brief stopover in Moscow on the way from Washington to Peking, Khrushchev himself spoke of Dwight Eisenhower in language of a kind Soviet leaders have never before applied...
...them found it heartening, some clung to the suspicion that it might be just another cynical appeal to the world's yearning for peace. But it was a measure of the degree to which Khrushchev had turned the world upside down in the last month that the West could even conceive of him as a shield and buckler against the belligerence of Mao Tse-tung's China...
...Sharp Street West, in the heart of Hong Kong, stands a handsome new eight-story building, with its grilled entrance locked round the clock. Not even the postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news...