Word: beamish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pink-cheeked, beamish, the inevitable cigar in his hand and the dignity of greatness about him, Winston Churchill faced some 200 newsmen panting to know just why he had made the wintry Atlantic crossing, in such a hurry, to visit with Dwight Eisenhower...
...convened from every section of the country by Columbia's Scholastic Press Association-excitedly wondered if the President would toss them a whopping scoop, such as an announcement that he will run for office again. Harry Truman chose not to let that cat out of the bag. Instead, beamish and bubbly, he told his young audience in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom...
...blue-chip General Motors, which gained 1⅞ points to set a new alltime high at 99⅞. Chrysler did even better, gained 3½ points. Since the market had now broken through all previous "resistance points" (i.e., levels at which stocks had been bought at higher prices), beamish Wall Street bulls thought there would be more climbing...
People get "this lord & lady business" all mixed up, complained Baron Lawson of Beamish, 68, who was a coal miner at twelve and labor M.P. for 30 years before he was raised to the peerage last February. "People come along to me and say, 'Well, you see, my lord'; then they get to, 'It's this way, Mr. Lawson'; then it's, 'Tell me, John'; and in the end it's, 'See here, Jack...
...Harvey fumed over the disposal of former Nationalist planes in Hong Kong and shipments of British aircraft engines and frames to Red China: "It seems extraordinary that when we are accepting aid from our friends in the U.S. we should be handing over equipment in this way." Major Tufton Beamish quoted the 1920 prophecy of Stalin: "England's back will be broken, not on the banks of the Thames, but on the Yangtze, the Ganges and the Nile...