Word: entrusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgrade rushed troops, tanks and horse artillery to Zone B. Before a rally of 100,000 Yugoslavs, Tito fired tempers further: he demanded a different Trieste solution-one which would entrust to Italy only the city and give all the rest to Yugoslavia-and warned that, unless it is accepted, "there will be no peace in this part of Europe." "We would give up [Western] aid," said Tito, "but we will never give up these interests." Then he vowed that if Italy sends in troops to occupy Zone A, Yugoslavia will consider it "an act of aggression" and send...
...Lilienthal the situation is especially vivid. He remembers those nervous years after VJ Day when our friendship with Russia was cooling rapidly. At that time, the government was well-satisfied to entrust its defense to a cheap, and supposedly invincible, stockpile of atom bombs...
Your report [Sept. 7] on Albert Lynd's sizzling new book Quackery in the Public Schools is a cheering note of hope to those who are justifiably alarmed at the incredible stupidity and totalitarian tactics of some of the "educators" to whose care they must entrust the training of their children...
...last appeal. Democracy could not compromise with the Red left or the black right and survive, he insisted, speaking calmly but with a dry, bitter awareness of what was to come. The rightists could not be trusted, he said. As for the Communists and the Red Socialists: "We cannot entrust the country to either Communism or a coalition which would fall under the Cominform and invariably lead to forced labor, concentration camps and slavery. Rome would thus share the fate of Moscow and Prague . . . I am not prepared to be either an Italian Kerensky or a Von Papen. To this...
...classic contrast between politics and statesmanship. The very qualities that made them historically significant severly limited their vote-getting appeal. Stevenson did not talk down to the voters. If anything, he was too humble. The voters, unprepared to govern themselves, wanted a strong figure to whom they might entrust their futures in an hour of national crisis. His speeches showed him to be shy, modest, sensitive. His only charisma was that of the mind...