Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successors to Dulles--Thomas E. Dewey, Christian A. Herter '15, and Henry Cabot Lodge '24. Lodge is the only one now working in the realm of foreign affairs, as U.N. delegate, but his record there is not impressive, He has rarely been more than efficient, and his best remembered act was a refusal to shake hands with a Russian delegate...
...Prince Rainier, but also used everybody's real names and even called Monaco Monaco. One ditty in the show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain-"to get home to the baby-sitter." Thunderous applause burst out when one line of the script grudgingly allowed: "All the Kellys are nice people." Rainier and Grace had fortunately missed the show, preferring to stay in Maryland with friends, as the Princess's mother coolly explained their absence...
Egmont is snapped out of his boredom by a foot injury that begins to gangrene just when he comes across some books on yoga. Egmont decides to find out if death and disease can be vanquished by a conscious act of will. All that is needed, he feels, is to sink into one's "cellular consciousness" in order to control the action of body tissues. With his bosomy mistress Olga at his side, he enters a "semi-cataleptic" trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen...
...whose special field is United States diplomatic history, went on to say, "The British Foreign Office has decided to act on what they consider their real international interest rather than on the traditional, social, and emotional ties between the U.S. and Great Britain...
...Thomas Finletter grasp the problems involved in containment, neutralism, economic aid and defense. Supported by these advisers, Stevenson can add imaginative dimensions to this country's foreign policy during the next four critical years. Lincoln said that as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew: This is the task confronting America in the world, and this is the task which Stevenson must undertake...