Sentence:  During the next five years liberal leaders in the <WSD>United</WSD> States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment - and the bitterest irony - enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States