Word: bespoken
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...Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation. And in fact, using the guidelines of the Kevin Bacon game, whereby any actor can be traced to Kevin in six steps, a lot of the bad stuff that has happened to America, or anywhere, can be traced to our bow-tied friend. Then again, he can even be traced back to Kev himself...
...action in Vietnam today is justified precisely on the grounds of legal and moral principles for which a universal validity is bespoken. What we are fighting in Vietnam is, we are told, a reprehensible mode of behavior known as "aggression," contrasting with something else, which we are defending, known as "freedom." We would presumably be morally obliged to oppose "aggression" by force of arms wherever it raised its ugly head. The specifics of the situation, geographic, political or otherwise, are irrelevant. This commits us to action on the Asiastic mainland as much as in any other part of the globe...
...Tory party leaders, no fools, were not nearly so reactionary as the party label indicated. But there were many signs that all of these things were not enough. One sign was Aneurin Sevan's successful revolt. He could never have got away with it if he had not bespoken the mood of many Britons, moving with him toward a new postwar labor leadership...
...Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking...
Motoring to the British Embassy, the Canadian, Irish and South African Legations, Secretary of State Hull conveyed the official condolences of the U. S. Government to the Governments of the British Commonwealth. The sorrow of the people of the U. S. was bespoken by President Roosevelt, who added in his message to Edward VIII: "I had the privilege of knowing His Majesty during the War days, and his passing brings to me personally a special sorrow...