Word: could
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones...
...Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring on the greatest wheat glut of all. In Washington, Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans to "sell" Benson in the farm belt, not sell him out. When Benson heard that news...
...make the race against Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination. General finding: predictable coolness from the professionals, enough spontaneous warmth from amateurs and scattered Nixon dissidents to convince an energetic, personable Nelson Rockefeller that he might have a chance in the primaries if the voters could know him better...
...important news about the Rockefeller campaign, as the could-be candidate moved from private conference to pressagent ceremonial to public speech, is that he is hammering together perhaps the most complete individual platform of any candidate in sight. One reason: Rockefeller's big advantage over Nixon is that, standing outside the Eisenhower Administration and the Federal Government, he can speak out more freely on national issues than Insider Nixon can. Fundamental in Rockefeller's strategy is a decision to push that advantage hard. Rockefeller on the issues...
...that he is dissatisfied with the U.S.'s foreign-policy performance during the Eisenhower years. "We have seemed too often to lack coherent and continuing purpose. Rather, we have relied on sporadic responses to sudden needs and crises . . . Perhaps we have been dreaming that words could be substituted for deeds, problems be patched up with slogans, abstract proclamations take the place of concrete and creative policies. We cannot continue thus...