Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your summation of the Half-Century was a masterpiece except for one thing. For better or for worse, there were other men who have left a greater impact on the world than Churchill did.
There is much controversy as to when this century reaches quinquagenarity. I suggest you try again in December 1950.
Wringing Hand. Two patterns are clear in Asia today, he said. One is "a revulsion against . . . misery and poverty as the normal condition of life"; the other is "the revulsion against foreign domination." Then he rolled with ball-bearing ease into his own theory of China's complex postwar...
Connally's yielding and Acheson's scorn neither relieved nor silenced the Republicans. Ohio's Robert Taft read a 1,500-word statement to the Senate, instead of talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our...
Acheson sat down and pocketed his spectacles amid the chair scraping and applause of a rising ovation. Forensically, it was a brilliant performance: an advocate's skilled case for the defense. As the outline of a policy, one basic flaw weakened it: a negative attitude which accented the hazards...