Word: anteroom
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Fine's victory gave Duff undisputed control of the party machinery and patronage, finally put old Joe Grundy out in the anteroom. And as one minor effect, Duff's victory did no good for the 1952 presidential hopes of Harold Stassen. Stassen campaigned for Cooke, his 1948 Pennsylvania campaign manager, and that was not likely to endear him to Jim Duff's 73-member Pennsylvania delegation in the 1952 G.O.P. convention...
...Mayflower Hotel. "I want to be right on time," he said, glancing at his watch. "It is proper." He ate little, wrapped a napkin over his forefinger and rubbed his teeth and gums meticulously when he was through. Forced to wait before testifying, he sat in a Capitol anteroom with the stiff dignity of a British butler in an American movie...
Newsmen, unfamiliar with his reference, hurried from the room, found that a State Department aide had thoughtfully appeared in the anteroom with a Bible in which they could read the text. *From this fact and from the statement itself they concluded that the Secretary of State had spoken only after careful thought, and not impulsively...
Like a patient sitting in a doctor's anteroom while the specialists discuss his case, the U.S. public last week sat outside while the President, his military, scientific and diplomatic advisers debated whether to construct the hydrogen bomb, the most powerful explosive weapon the world has yet dreamed...
Americans had come to accept the proposition that "the Marshall Plan is a success." The proposition was true, up to a point. Yet Americans were also learning that, in the battle for the West's survival, every success leads only to the anteroom of another crisis. Last week ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman flew to Paris, and into a new anteroom...