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Word: whispers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States; it only promises the negative result of averting, for a few months or years, well-nigh certain catastrophe . . . We are plunged into a truly terrible arms race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop the technical skills and peacetime atomic-energy possibilities of all nations, including Russia. In return, other nations, including Russia, would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Urge to Do Something | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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