Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Russians. Ike assured the Turks that U.S. willingness to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. did not mean that the U.S. would give ground. That evening, at a dinner in the presidential palace, the President of the U.S. paid his own unique tribute to the doughty land that had done him such honor. Said he: "No power on earth, no evil, no threat can frustrate a people of your spirit...
This murderous skirmish last October in the windswept wastes of Ladakh province may have done more than anything else to bring Asia to what Jawaharlal Nehru calls "one of those peak events in history when a plunge has to be taken in some direction." The gunfire in Ladakh echoed through India. Instead of shouts of "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!" (India and China are brothers). New Delhi's streets resounded with the clamor, "Give us arms! We will go to Ladakh!" The Red Chinese embassy was stoned, the All-India Students' Congress called for a "Throw Back the Aggressors...
...twelve years ago: the biggest man in India. But at a considerable cost to the nation and himself. Last year Nehru told newsmen that he was feeling "flat and stale," and wanted to retire as Prime Minister. He was ravaged by the ceaseless struggle to get things done in the timeless, bottomless morass of India. Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because...
Nehru grew increasingly waspish to reporters and his own subordinates, and could not stand being contradicted. He angrily insisted that he had to do everything himself or it would not be done, and he spent as much time on unimportant household details as on national problems. He suddenly began to look older...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...