Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as casual, just as relaxed, was U.S. Diplomat Harold Stassen as he strode around London and Paris last week. His job was to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Russians on disarmament, so that A-bombs, H-bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Florida might some day become...
Ignotus* got the full treatment. At a secret trial at the end of 1950 he confessed: "I said that I hated the workers. I admitted I was a willing tool of the Western imperialists and capitalists. I recited fully the lesson I had spent a year and a half learning...
Each dawn the valley's farmers awoke to find their vines and fruit trees cut down. Hundreds of cattle lay dead. Tons of hay were ruined. The total damage over two months was estimated at more than $5,000,000. When the police tried to stop the violence, Communist...
Warned Fleming: "The question for American growers is whether to plan to serve the increased market, increasing their volume of operations but accepting lower prices, or abdicate it and reconcile themselves to a declining business within a sheltered artificial market, provided the rest of their countrymen are willing to bear...
Kier Nash's poem is exceptional only in that he is willing to make slight concessions to the grand old tradition of rhyme which has so long embellished English poetry. The other four poets are above this sort of thing.