Word: assess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva was more than a competition in public relations. It was a unique chance to assess those increasingly less mysterious Russians. It was a chance for the Russians themselves to come out into the sunlight: the world, as well as the Russians, gained by that. And it was a time of reading of intentions. The reading was optimistic. "There ain't going to be any war," proclaimed British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, arriving home. "A new era," said Russia's Bulganin. "There is evidence of new friendship in the world," said Eisenhower...
...Rome's international set, the Via Veneto is outdoor club, place of business, trading post and town pump. At the tables, porcine movie producers discuss deals over an aperitivo, sad-eyed young English poets finger their last published articles, handsomely tailored young men while away their time, expertly assess the jewels on neighboring matrons and debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families...
...decision and its timing is his own problem, one full of conflicting elements that no observer can assess. But viewed objectively, there is no political reason why Ike should hasten to make up his mind. The longer his P.M.I., the tougher he can make it for the men who have made it tough...
Such generous junketing is inevitably expensive, but it would be both unfair and unwise to assess Saudi Arabia's new King merely in terms of conspicuous consumption. His father carved out the land and lived to be astonished by a flow of gold that nothing in his training could have anticipated or prepared him to spend wisely. He left the land to his sons to make or break. In Saudi Arabia there are signs-new hospitals, new roads, new schools (though not enough of them), a bustle on all sides-that Saud will make...
Trouble on a Limb. Ambiguity is an ancient and necessary tool of diplomacy. In the case of Quemoy and Matsu, which are closer to the China mainland than to Formosa, it provides the U.S. with a flexibility and freedom of action, i.e., the President allows himself the chance to assess the circumstances of attack before opening fire on Communist China. Dulles has a second reason for ambiguity: in Britain, where the defense of Quemoy and Matsu is unpopular, the Churchill government has gone a long way to endorse the U.S. stand on defending Formosa, runs the risk of weakening even...