Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Three weeks ago, in a polite but damning note, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, "I simply do not understand what your purpose is." It was not the kind of remark to provoke a humble confession of contrition from Khrushchev, and it didn't. Last week came his reply: a letter that blamed the West for the summit collapse, the Berlin stalemate, the RB-47 incident, the Congo crisis, the Cuban situation and a few other disturbances that crossed Nikita's mind...
...undergraduate of Harvard College I am dismayed by the costume adopted by some of my fellow students who are continuing their regular studies here at the summer session. I can understand that those visiting us from other areas, students from colleges of a different tradition, unacquainted with our way of life, see nothing wrong with shorts, sandals, and sports shirts. But Harvard men (much less Harvardmen) should know better. I call upon my brethren to return to the ways of old. Let us distinguish ourselves from the surrounding mass, with some outward sign of our inward grace. Let our sisters...
...another rare performance with an extemporaneous talk next morning at a breakfast for 600 Republicans. "In the operation of any great human organization," he said, "constructive plans and programs must be developed in the great middle road . . . Most people instinctively grow to like the paved highway, and they understand here it is where human progress is achieved. Those that march in the gutter, in the extremes of the right and the left, in the long run are always defeated." He also reminded his fellow Republicans that he was not yet to be relegated to history's scrap heap. Said...
...what they want to hear but what they need to hear. Why, for example, it may be just as essential to the national interest to build a dam in India as in California. It will be difficult, too, because we Americans have always been able to see and understand the danger presented by missiles and airplanes and bombs, but we found it hard to recognize the even more deadly danger of the propaganda that warps the mind, the economic offensive that softens the nation, the subversion that destroys the will to resist tyranny...
...allies shared a growing concern: Was Nikita Khrushchev deluded by 1960 U.S. electioneering talk into thinking that he could stretch his risks until a new Administration takes over next January? Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan shot off a letter telling Khrushchev, "I simply do not understand what your purpose is," warned him against the danger of war by "miscalculation" or "mischance." President Eisenhower, mild and conciliatory since the summit collapse and his own troubles in Japan, signaled for a tough turn in U.S. policy...