Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, if Israel were in possession of modern weapons, comparable in combat performance to arms available to Arab nations, aggression would be deterred. The principle that sufficient power to deter aggression is instrumental for the maintenance of peace is commonly recognized, and had been put forward by Mr. Dulles himself. A weak Israel would serve as an invitation to aggression that would increase the general turmoil in the region, which is only playing into Russian hands. On the other hand, by providing arms to Israel and thus deterring aggression, the general stability in the area would be advanced...
...East, the communiqué warned Red China that the U.S. and Britain "were firmly united ... to deter and prevent aggressive expansion by force or subversion." Actually, as the course of the talks again made clear, Eden does not support the U.S. view that a Communist attack on Quemoy and Matsu could constitute aggression. Then the communiqué noted that the allied embargo on strategic trade with Red China "should be reviewed now and periodically ... in the light of changing conditions." During the talks Eden pressed the U.S. to let into Red China the strategic goods that it now lets into...
...cleavage we have described should be resolved by force. We shall never initiate violence. Moreover, we shall use our full influence to assure that Soviet efforts to inflame old antagonisms will not succeed in breaking the peace . . . Meanwhile, the society of free nations must retain the power needed to deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others to peace, freedom and social progress, maintaining human rights where they are already secure, defending them when they are in peril, and peacefully...
...reduces fear and restores hope to Europe, by providing a shield-a shield that is visible, and, by virtue of five U.S. divisions in Germany, visibly American. In doing so, NATO, in its seven short years, has served well. It has created a community powerful enough to deter its enemy, healthy enough to survive family squabbles so far, binding enough so that no member has wished to withdraw. And for NATO's present solidity and good repute, the free world has reason to be grateful to General Al Gruenther...
...army buddy was killed. Noble Humphrey not only finds the killers, but also his dead chum's true love, night club singer Lizabeth Scott. He likes the way she sings. That she talks like a hoarse Lauren Bacall and sings like a wounded sea lion does not deter our boy Bogart...