Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overbuilt, that the last frontier had been reached, and that the nation had better resign itself to doing the best it could in a "mature economy." In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defined the problem as "administering resources and plants already in hand." All this was formally reversed last week by Harry Truman...
There was one voice, sadder in its tone and firmer in its faith than all the others, which spoke out on Formosa this week in the eloquence of personal tragedy. Madame Chiang Kaishek, wife of the beleaguered leader of anti-Communist China, sat before a microphone in her brother-in-law's New York home to say her farewell to the U.S. before leaving to rejoin her husband on Formosa. Said...
...confusion of policy and reality in China gave the State Department another embarrassing problem this week. A fiery Danish-American named Hans Isbrandtsen, the ruggedest individual among U.S. shipowners, sent his American freighter, Flying Arrow, through the Nationalist blockade to deliver his cargo to the Chinese Communists. Two Nationalist destroyer escorts opened up on it and rifled 30 to 40 shells into the ship without hurting anyone (after missing with the first 38 shots). Then the Nationalist warships hovered by the crippled freighter...
...81st Congress came back to its work last week, he slouched through the halls of the Capitol, a rumpled, craggy mountain of a man, smoking incessantly, dropping the ashes often as not on his shabby blue suit-the most promising, most controversial freshman the Senate had seen in years...
...Last week the problem lay on the desk of the President of the U.S. for decision. "The choice," said the Washington Post, "may be the most cosmic that has confronted any chief of state in war or peace in American history...