Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February, under the label "Operation Quagmire," Matt Ridgway put out a bitter analysis of the Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
...speech had in spots the quality of a bugle blowing "Assembly." It offered no panaceas, but it rang with a kind of hope and strength that Americans have not lately heard from their leaders. The speech also served notice that he plans to pin on Robert Taft the "isolationist" label that the Ohioan heatedly rejects...
Wasn't he too close to Democrats? "A lot of my friends have worn the Democratic label. But to no one in any political place do I owe anything. I'm in just as good a position to slug as any free American." But he would not stoop to character assassination. "I don't believe in it. I will...
...full term in 1946. He has long advocated a strong U.S. policy in the Far East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington to label him "the Senator from Formosa." This political position, plus his Pacific Coast following, equip him particularly well to balance a ticket headed by Eisenhower...
...civilization in A.D. 1952, usual standards do not apply. In the week that brought it freedom and partnership with the Western democracies, West Germany was afflicted with a fever of doubts, fears, misgivings and unsatisfied yearnings. It was a complex state of mind that defied diagnosis and eluded a label. It was not simply "neutralism" or "nationalism" or "contrariness" or the cynical fatalism of ohne mich (count me out), but a combination of many things. Professed horror of a new war. Fear that West Germany is saying goodbye to a third of its land and 18 million brothers encased...