Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class of '52; or at least it's in my mind. Over a year ago we were signed up for the '52 Register and Red Book--the two costing $6. We received the Register shortly before Christmas last year. The Red Book, according to the blurb, is to contain our pictures, sports articles, and write-ups of our activities in our freshman year. The pictures are to be the same ones that were in the Register; all freshman activities have been over for some time, but no tentative date has even been set for the Red Book's release. Personally...
Lippmann is opposed to the Truman Doctrine and to the thinking of State Department Planner George Kennan which helped shape it. For two years, Lippmann has argued that: 1) the U.S. cannot "contain" Russia on the whole periphery of the Soviet Union; 2) that Soviet power is unlikely to "mellow" under containment; and 3) that a settlement with Russia should be sought that would result in the withdrawal from Germany of the Western armies as well as of the Red army...
...know where India stood in the present world crisis could ask no more-if Nehru's statement meant what it seemed to mean. However, in other speeches throughout the week Nehru made it clear that he was against aligning India with the U.S. in a concerted effort to contain the only aggressor in sight. Americans who looked upon U.S. policy as a bulwark against the Communist threat to freedom would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time . . . How can peace be preserved...
...most solemn moments of His life He prays with moving intensity that we may all be one . . . It is high time that we, who through four centuries have so lightly taken the presence of this division for granted, pay sincere heed to the warning which these His words contain for us. And there is a further task. The striving for the unity of Christendom must burn into our consciousness as a chief goal of our hearts and of our ceaseless prayer...
...discovered in the dry soil of the Paracas Peninsula, did not look like much. It was a pumpkin-shaped bundle of coarse brown cloth some 5 ft. in diameter. No one could tell what was in it. Other such likely-looking mummy bundles have turned out to contain beans...