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US
/ˈætʃəsən/
]
NOUN
- United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)
How To Use Acheson In A Sentence
- Europe's evil genie, said people like Kennan, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and future ERP Ambassador Averell Harriman, was nationalism.
- He also began a running feud with Dean Acheson.
- However, Truman was persuaded by Acheson to appoint Dulles in April 1950 as consultant on foreign affairs.
- In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.
- A key moment before the war had come in January 1950, when Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in a speech, defined what he called the defensive perimeter that the United States was committed to protecting. CIA Files Show U.S. Blindsided By Korean War
- Acheson replied that the obstacle was one of security.
- It is named for Edward Acheson, a U.S. inventor best known for the invention of the highly effective abrasive material Carborundum. Archive 2010-05-01
- Acheson visited Vandenberg in hospital on 21 January and the senator emphasised his support for Acheson's policy.
- But Acheson took a second careful look and saw a few bright specks attached to the rod.
- Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised.
