Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Drift to Indecision. Unsure of his allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports...
...state of affairs the three Regions-tribes-parties, balance each other off, prevent the domination of the country by any one element, and work to maintain a great measure of constitutional compromise. Although a number of the younger politically-minded people have been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier to decisive and constructive action...
...trying to oust him because he had opposed their attempts to subvert the Congo in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Hammarskjold took up their challenge. Said he: "I would rather see the office of Secretary-General break on strict adherence to the principles of independence, impartiality and objectivity than drift on the basis of compromise...
...Drift to the Left. At week's end, Premier Souvanna announced that a garrison of Phoumi's men at Samneua had fallen to the Pathet Lao. Not so, said Captain Kong Le. His own men, aided by Pathet Lao and local villagers, had taken Samneua. "I don't care about the ceasefire," added Kong Le, who apparently commands the only really effective fighting force in all Laos, and likes to see things done his way. "We will keep fighting until all the Phoumi men surrender...
...past 7½ years. We are now behind Russia in the space race, ballistic missile production and development, education, military manpower, and speed of economic growth. Developments in Cuba, Japan, Latin America and the Middle East have shocked us. We cannot afford to continue this dangerous drift. To lead us in the next four years we must have new faces in the White House-those of Kennedy and Johnson...