Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest single act of his presidency. He sent the U.S. fleet around the world. T.R. did it to show Japan, and Europe as well, that the U.S. was not only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and deter war anywhere. He did it to show the people of the U.S. that from then on out the U.S. was part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers at such places as Japan and Australia...
...real importance of the Baghdad Pact is simply that it continues to exist. Thus it serves to deter Soviet aggression and, scarcely less important, to provide four major countries of the traditionally anarchic Middle East with practical experience in economic and military cooperation...
...bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet aggression," 2) political-economic aid and beefed-up world trade. 3) the exportable and basic meanings of the U.S. way of life. "It is up to us to make our freedom so rich, so dynamic, so self-disciplined that its values will be beyond dispute and its influence become...
...defense effort . . . goes only far enough to deter and defeat attack. We will never be an aggressor. We want adequate security. We want no more than adequacy. But we will accept nothing less...
...threat of national suicide will probably deter an all-out nuclear war, Henry A. Kissinger '50, Assistant Director of the Center for International Affairs, said last night...