Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar figure-as K.'s limousine swept him back to Blair House. Within an hour he was showered and dressed for a reception at the Soviet embassy, then headed off to a private dinner with two dozen businessmen to sound the old brassy warning that U.S. willingness to disarm and trade would prove whether the U.S. wanted war or peace...
...Union and the U.S. You people must accept the facts of life. You must recognize that we are here to stay." Khrushchev's argument: the U.S. must accept that fact and concede a "status quo" or "thaw" or "peace." It must close down its worldwide deterrent bases and disarm. It should reap the golden harvest of trade with Communist nations. It should leave to a furious peacetime competition the settlement of the classic feud between Communism and capitalism. Ultimately, he declared cockily, Communism would win anyway...
Dodd dismissed as "insipid sentimentality" the idea that "soft words, smiles and geniality" on the part of Western leaders could make possible some kind of settlement with the Soviet leaders. "Any artificial accommodation which gives the appearance of agreement without the substance is a dangerous folly that can only disarm us and send us to our doom, comforted and reassured that all is well...
...coordinated assault-to assail his confession as "feeble" and "unconvincing." Said Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, a longtime Khrushchev henchman from the Ukraine: "Bulganin now pretends that he only joined the group at the last minute. This is not true. If Bulganin has in fact repented, then he must disarm himself completely and tell honestly about his subversive work and about the roots that have remained...
Rebels by Phone. British Newsmen Richard Beeston of the London News Chronicle and John Mossman of the London Daily Herald hung their cab with pictures of Nasser to disarm Iraqi border guards, drove through 130° heat from Damascus to Baghdad. (From the Herald's foreign desk to Mossman came the wry plea: "For God's sake, put up the meter flag!") TIME-LIFE'S Correspondent Robert Morse and Photographer Larry Burrows made it along the same route, found Baghdad street peddlers doing a brisk trade hawking pictures of the mutilated bodies of Premier Nuri asSaid...