Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...News. Behind Eisenhower's in 1959 came other names familiar to the cold war, and the news they made was dramatic evidence of freedom's vital toughness on many fronts. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, challenger for Man of the Year, led his Conservative Party to a crushing third straight election victory, an unprecedented feat; in booming Britain his triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that Communism tripped...
...aggression; he demonstrated in the Suez crisis that the U.S. would resist aggression by its friends as well as its enemies, that peace was meaningless without justice. In 1956, he decided to run for re-election despite two major illnesses and the possibility that a constitutional ban against a third term might dilute his effectiveness (in the event, the 22nd Amendment strengthened Eisenhower's hand; with no political future he could plainly prove that he acted in the national interest, not out of personal ambition). He gave his reason for seeking re-election to a small group of friends...