Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson. Two days later, before an applauding group of NATO parliamentarians in Washington, Acheson implied that the Russians are interested principally in survival for Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about...
...there is no known way to identify nuclear explosions of small yield underground, the U.S. cannot know if the Russians have really stopped tests. The Russians have tested several high-energy shots this year, one in excess of Hiroshima size, and the U.S. has only the U.S.S.R.'s word that the shots were nonnuclear. Moreover, with their big-thrust rocket engines, the Russians have the capability of testing nuclear warheads without detection in outer space, getting telemetered results much as they did from their moon shots. "We haven't quite lost this fight yet." said one knowledgeable nuclear...
...newspaperman." Pittenger was born in Kansas City, Mo., but he moved often, attending 15 schools in seven states. Constantly on the move, he had only one thing to take an interest in everywhere he went--sports. It was easy to combine games and journalism "into one big word--sportswriting," he says...
...Bontche, a poor man's J.B. who has taken life in the teeth without ever uttering a word of protest, Paul Richards shows his versatility. If it was joie de vivre before, it is mal de vivre now. Without saying a word he conveys utter abjectness, outdoing J.B. himself, who at least had fond memories. Arriving in heaven, Bontche is judged by God to be so innocent that anything in heaven is his for the asking. What Bontche asks for, and the way in which he asks for it, are so humble that God and the angels cannot but hang...
...lecture," remarked the third, "we analyzed every word in three poems. If you had attended, you would now understand poetry...