Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Beer sketched five possible approaches to the arms race, starting with the one most familiar, deterrence. The present U.S. and Soviet policy, deterrence depends on the threat of nuclear retaliation for an attack. Among the dangers here are accident and miscalculation, for the system requires both full, swift information and unfailing rational calculation on both sides...
...sovereign nation answering the appeal for help of other sovereign nations-much as the President moved troops into Lebanon in 1958. The order not only put teeth into the President's statement of last July promising firm support for the Monroe Doctrine, but broadened the doctrine to include swift support for any Latin American nation that felt itself under threat from Communism...
...Gary has done it again. In four swift, sure, moving pages he has confronted youth with old age, invoked the spectrum of life from cradle to grave, underscored the sad truth that there comes a time when just to be able to rise and walk is a cause for self-congratulation...
Needle for Coattails. Outwardly, as Kennedy sped swift as the hungry hummingbird through more than a dozen states, he showed no concern over the religion question (though he was prepared, if necessary, to go on TV to outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue...
...also Berlin's first Chocolate Soldier. Fritz's mother Rosa was the daughter of a Viennese Baumeister (builder) and a sometime actress who used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...