Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote for impeachment right now.'' South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston went even further. "If I were Governor Faubus," he said, "I'd proclaim a state of insurrection down there, and I'd call out the National Guard, and I'd then find out who's going to run things in my state...
...elaborately publicized succession, President Eisenhower proclaimed U.S. "anxiety" over the Syrian situation, U.S. fleet units churned up a show of force in Eastern Mediterranean waters, and U.S. Air Force C124 Globemasters wheeled over Amman in a display delivery of U.S. 106-mm. antitank rifles to Jordan's army. Instead of persuading other Arab countries that the Arab nationalists of Syria were a threat to them, the U.S. display offended them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria...
...mess: "What the politicians have given us is an atrocious lump of sugar, the U.N. building." On writers: T. S. Eliot "betrayed poetry. In America, well, Papa Hemingway knows how to write, but he's dishonest." Said Papa to Il Tempo: "Pound is a great poet, and I proclaim it proudly. He's been punished enough, no matter what...
Brave & Tragic. The nation soon grew accustomed to having its sons disappear into the woods for mysterious campfire powwows, struggle with all sorts of exotic knots, make fire without matches, proclaim that they were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death...
...without open U.S. involvement. He also suggests that this could be done without provoking a general war. (Such notions, Chiang concedes with what might almost be taken for irony, are likely to cause "certain misgivings abroad.") Above all, fie wants the West to regain the initiative, to realize and proclaim that, in China as in all the world, the Communists stand for reaction; the true revolution is democracy...