Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Would it bring World War III with Soviet Russia? Would it inflict a defeat that Russia couldn't counter? Finally there was a question of leadership in the comity of nations. Said Douglas MacArthur, who had shaped his life to the principle: lead, the rest will follow you. Cautioned Harry Truman, in his fashion and tradition: win friends, and hang on to them...
Insistence on the Sole. In its first temporary quarters (a rented mansion), the Pennsylvania Hospital reflected the informality of the times. Its first patient, Margaret Sherlock, was cured after 16 days, stayed on as a nurse. Dr. Bond lost no time in bringing apprentices into the hospital, "to follow the practice of the house and to assist the physicians." Also, because weather was supposed to have a direct bearing on disease, Bond started keeping weather records. Franklin was the hospital's first secretary, second president. To encourage regular attendance at meetings of the twelve-man board of managers...
...might well have denounced the Communists, as he denounced the Nazis in World War II, but he would have called on the West to fight them with non-violent weapons, as he suggested that the Nazis should be fought. The West might not have been able, or fit, to follow that advice, but the moral conflict would have been clear: a conflict between a saint and worldly men. The conflict between Nehru and the West is not a conflict between saintliness and worldliness, but between two forms of worldliness-Nehru's neutralism masquerading as otherworldliness. As one writer...
...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
...Long View. Today, thinks Santayana, both the U.S. and Russia "aspire to be universal; and under either of them, if absolutely dominant, mankind might become safe, law-abiding, sporting, and uniform." And under either, the individual soul attempting to follow its "native bent" might find itself in a spiritual concentration camp. Since he dreads the export of America's "commercial" culture as much as any French intellectual who winces at the sight of a Coke, Santayana feels that perhaps the "barbarians" of the East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted...